1. MING CHINA
A WORLD POWER
FOURTEEN AND FIFTEENTH CENTURY

2. OVERVIEW
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Ming government and society
Travel and trade
Scientific achievement
China looks inward

3. “New” Dynasty in China – the Ming

4. GOVERNMENT AND SOCIETY
• Ming emperor exercised ABSOLUTE power
• Opposition was silenced
• Emperor was worshiped as the “Son of God”

5. The Hongwu
Emperor
The Hongwu Emperor was
the founder and first emperor
of the Ming Dynasty of
China. Hongwu means
"vastly martial“.
Hung-Wu threw the Mongols
out.
One of the two Emperors of
ancient China who came from
peasant background, he
claimed the Mandate of
Heaven and established the
Ming Dynasty in 1368.

6. THE THREE CITIES

7. THE FORBIDDEN CITY

8. TRAVEL AND TRADE
• Ming Emperor Yongle sent several
government sponsored expeditions in the
early 1400s.
• Hundreds of ships and thousands of men
made diplomatic “contacts” and trade
connections from China to East Africa.

9. Voyages of the Chinese, 1405-1433

10. ZHENG HE

12. TRADED IN…

13. GOT…
An African Giraffe
brought back by
the Treasure Ships
was taken to be the
auspicious,
mythical creature
Gilin.

14. SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENT
• MING MAP OF THE WORLD

15. The End
of the
MING
Time was up for the Ming. Corruption, natural disasters and popular
uprisings took their toll on the Ming, but it was the invading Manchu
rebellion that did the Ming Empire in.
As the Manchu invaded, someone opened the gates for the marauding

16. Emperor
Kangxi
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The Ming Dynasty fell in
1644.
The Manchu then formed
the last Dynasty of China,
the Qing.

17. REFERENCES
• robert ponzio, Artist / Teacher at Oak Hall School on Jan 25,
2013
• MING INTRO- Nathan Roher, Working at Friendswood High
School