China, India, Japan

This was the last Han Chinese ruling dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644.

• Ming Dynasty

• Meiji Restoration

• Queue Order

• Korematsu

This was a Manchu-led dynasty that ruled China proper from 1644 to 1912.

• Qing Dynasty

• Meiji Restoration

• Queue Order

• Korematsu

This was a Muslim eunuch and admiral who engaged in a series of treasure expeditions that projected Chinese power and wealth throughout the Indian Ocean and South China Sea.

• Genghis Khan
• Kublai Khan
• Ming Dynasty
• Zheng He

This was a policy of violent ethnic discrimination in which Han and other ethnic minorities were required to wear the Manchu hairstyle.

• Ponytail Order

• Queue Order
• Braid Order

• Shaved Head Order

This was the disastrous silver-only tax policy implemented by the Ming Dynasty.

• Single Whip Law

• Double Whip Law

• Sakoku

• Korematsu

This was a global cooling period from roughly 1300 - 1850 that, among other things, contributed to mass famine and the decline of the Ming Dynasty.

• Cold Snap
• Ice Age
• Freezing Era
• Little Ice Age

This was a major epidemic between 1633 - 1644 in China.

• bubonic plague
• Great Plague

• Spanish flu
• Zika virus

This was the Chinese emperor from 1661 - 1722 who vastly expanded Manchu-controlled territory and created one of the largest land empires of all time.

• Ming
• Kangxi
• Qianlong
• Hongwu

This is an ethnic minority in northern China that led the Qing Dynasty from 1644-1912.

• Manchu
• Mongol
• Han
• Tibetan

This was the massive infrastructure and defense program that largely crippled Ming economic power and failed to protect the northern territories of imperial China.

• Great Wall of China
• Forbidden City
• Silk Road
• Terracotta Army