Reasons For China's Dominant World Position

There are an infinite amount of reasons why China lost its dominant world position post-1400. Leading up to the 1400’s China was the “commander and chief’ of all Counties. They were much more developed and were way more advance than another culture at the time. A few major points as to why China lost its dominant world position would be because, they cut off trade and labeled all others as barbarians, they had a series of brutal power struggles, and Confucian scholars set China down a disastrous path, with their dismantling theories. All of these reasons play a vital role in China’s decline. After Zheng He’s seven expeditions, Asia went into relative isolation. It was this that laid the groundwork for the rise of Europe and eventually America.