Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) - Answer overthrew the yuan dynasty, stabilized the East Asian region of nearly 300 years, ming era saw Portuguese and Europeans who aimed to enrich on the asian trade network Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) - Answer Manchu overthrew ming, during both dynasties Japan and Korea experienced parallel developments with unique aspects Bejing and Nanjing - Answer both north and southern capitals were beatified, members the royal family lived in the Forbidden City a walled compound of royal places Zheng He - Answer Muslim admiral sent on the first of seven great voyages by the Ming Emperor Yongle in 1405, he traveled to Indonesia and Ceylon and the coastal areas from the Indian Ocean to arabia and Africa along with the cape of god hope, the purpose of the voyages was to display the might of the Ming Dynasty to the rest of the world and collect tribute, fleet was more then 300 ships and 28,000 people Monopoly - Answer aim of the construction of Portuguese forts, establish it over spice trade and to license all vessels trading between mellaca and hormuz, the forts gave Portugal a global trading post empire, one based on small out puts not control of large territories Jesuits - Answer followed and tried to win over the Chinese court elite, scientific and tech knowledge were the keys to success, jesuit missionaries in Macau such as Matteo Ricci and Adam schall von bell impressed the Chinese with their learning but were unable to win over many converts among the hostile scholar gentry who considered them barbaric Li Zicheng - Answer during 1644 famine this minor court official led a peasant revolt, conquered the Chinese capital Bejing, the Manchu from Manchuria a region northwest o china saw the overthrow as an opportunity to seize power, they moved into china and pretended to help ming but easily ousted inexperienced Li Zicheng and declared the Qing Dynasty, people from Manchuria migrated into china taking advantage of new lands and prestige of being part of the ruling ethnic elite, took 40 years before Manchu took over all of china but held power more than 250 years Queues - Answer men who were obligated to dress in Manchu style wore these braided pigtails which made their culture dominant in china, those who refused were executed, like the mongols the Manchurian supported Qing put their own people on top positions of government Tibet - Answer mountainous land of north India, china imposed a protectorate over it, a policy reflected in Chinas control of the region today Kangxi Dictionary - Answer Composed by Kangxi a confucian scholar and poet, he urged the building of schools, 42000 characters in dictionary which became the standard Chinese dictionary of the 18 and 19 century, emperor kangxi supported the massive collection of books comparable to diverts encyclopedia during 18th century France