HIST 010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Yongle Emperor, Kublai Khan, Zheng He
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At this time, many people around the world independently decided to build ships and exp. 1216-1368 ad: conquered and ruled by the mongols. Mongols eventually lost their military edge and mongol rule in china began to. 1368 ad: chinese drove mongols out and they never came back; china was fr. 1368 - 1644 ad: ming dynasty (third most important dynasty) 1402 - 1424 ad: yung-lo was the ming dynasty"s third emperor. Wanted to demonstrate to the world that the chinese are back (7 was unified, powerful, and under chinese rule) During 700 years, china was divided and weak or ruled by f. Wanted to demonstrate that china was the most powerful count the history of the world. Also wanted to be the most powerful ruler on earth and in h. Expansion through land: expanded chinese army until it had 2 mi largest army yet seen in human history)
