Hongwu Emperor

From AD 1000 to AD 1600, China was united under the Song dynasty. The Song dynasty began in 960 and persisted until 1279. During this era, China became the first government in world history to nationally issue banknotes and was the first government in China to establish a permanent-standing navy. The Song dynasty is divided into two distinct periods, Northern and Southern. Following the Song dynasty was the Yuan dynasty, also known as the Great Yuan. This dynasty lasted from 1271 to 1368 and was…

qualities and my opinion on his ruling and his laws. Additionally I want to do research on how he became a leader and how he fell, how he died and on his family. The Ming Dynasties Government had an Emperor and unlike to other Dynasties just one Department, the Grand Secretariat.…

The effects of the Black Death on the Afro-Eurasian global communities included demographic consequences, demise of the economy, and social unrest. The majority of the demographic collapse was located in Europe and Islamic lands where population growth stopped for over a century, sometimes even longer, noting that England's population did return to pre-black death numbers until almost four centuries later. This devastation of population demise caused a lack of day-laborers, in turn causing labor…

a. What was the nature of the Asian sea-trading network? Stretching thousands of miles from the Middle East and Africa along the Asian coasts, the Asian sea trading network was a large system of commercial exchange and social interaction. It can be divided into three main zones, and each was concentrated around major centers of handicrafts. An Arab division, which focused on glass, tapestries, and carpets, was to the west. In the middle was India, which had an abundance of cotton textiles.…

It currently houses the Palace Museum. The Forbidden City served as the home of emperors and their households as well as the ceremonial and political center of Chinese government for nearly five hundred years.The most noticeable and vital aspects of the Forbidden City are the history, architecture, and collections.The capital was moved from Nanjing to Beijing since Hongwu Emperor's son Zhu Di became the Yongle Emperor, and the construction of the Forbidden City began in 1406. The development…

John Boyd Orr a famous doctor, biologist and politician explains, “In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without”. This phrase links the common and reoccurring rise/ downfall of ancient cultures and civilisations. Worldwide, historians agree that the ancient Mongolians like many civilisations, revolutionised and contributed significantly to the contemporary world.…