a large extent‚ accomplished their intended objective of incorporating other countries into the Ming tributary system by securing a declaration of loyalty and submission from the incorporated Tributary States to the greatness of the Ming Court’s Emperor. As most of the countries visited over the seven (7) voyages were already a Tributary State of the Ming Court‚ it somewhat‚ invalidated the need to further continue any more maritime voyage. For instance‚ (Yamashita‚ 2006) “though from the 1st voyage
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training his soldiers at Nanjing base and as a result‚ many developed into brilliant generals. Gradually Zhu Yuanzhang defeated one rival after another until they finally came to the Yuan capital. The forty year old Zhu then declared himself emperor of the Ming Dynasty (ming meaning bright). Zhu wanted world in which people obey their superiors and that those who commit evil acts should be punished. In order to ease the strain on the poor Zhu ordered a full scale registration of cultivated land
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the value of their produce (Doc 3). A man named Wang Xijue presented the problem to the emperor of the Ming dynasty in 1593‚ explaining that the cultivation of land was at risk due to the scarcity of the silver coin affecting the price of grain. In 1626‚ the emperor makes a ban on foreign trade‚ but it is soon frowned upon and taken into the matters of court official‚ He Qiaoyuan in 1630‚ who reports to the emperor that he believes the ban should be repealed. Qiaoyuan describes the extreme amount of
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samurai warrior code‚ and championing the slogan sonno joi‚ “revere the emperor‚ expel the barbarians.” As a result of Perry’s arrival‚ Japan was headed in a new direction despite political turmoil and national disorganization. The Choshu and Satsuma daimyo (a feudal lord)allied together to remove the Tokugawa shogunate (the government of a shogun‚ who is a dictator ruler over daimyo) and instead restored power to the imperial emperor Meiji‚ thus this time period in Japan is known as the Meiji Restoration
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of 2 years and 10 months by Dowager Empress Cixi while at her deathbed. Because Henry Puyi was put into throne without a choice‚ he lost his mother and family at a very young age‚ and it affected henry puyi’s life on how he made his stand as the emperor of China. Growing up without her mother‚ made him hate her own mother and trusting her wet nurse more‚ that according to him‚ she was the only one who there for him whenever he needed help. And as a person‚ I would personally consider this tragedy
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“The Roman Emperor Augustus is credited with instituting a corps or fire fighting watchmen in 24 BC”. (NAED) In this primitive form of fire fighting the men passed water by buckets from hand to hand to the flames to put them out. Since then fire fighting has changed and grown immensely and will continue to. The description though of what they do has stayed the same. Firefighters are the men and women who take control of‚ and put out fires. They respond to emergencies in which people’s lives‚ possessions
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The “Fall” of Rome Rome was once a strong civilization until it broke into pieces. Rome was like a broken mirror‚ a puzzle that lost the pieces‚ a painting that was one a masterpiece‚ but became faded and ruined. Sometimes good things fall apart‚ so better things can fall together. One of the main causes of the fall of Rome was of Roman invasions. As Rome became weaker‚ people saw it as an open door to invade and attack Rome. Some civilizations succeeded invading and attacking Rome such as the
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collapse as the Eastern Empire did not collapse until “Fall of Rome at Constantinople in 1453.” The base of this theory is that the Eastern Empire became the Byzantium Empire‚ however it was no longer the Roman Empire as there were no longer any Roman Emperors. Another theory by Peter Wells is “The Roman Empire “fell” only in the minds of people who had a particular and limited view of what the Roman Empire was and who understood events such as Alaric’s capture of Rome in A.D. 410 as marking its end.”
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1433) was a eunuch in the service of the Ming emperor Yung-lo and commander in chief of the Chinese expeditionary fleet to the South Seas in the early years of the 15th century. Born into a family named Ma‚ presumably of Mongol-Arab origin‚ in central Yünnan Province‚ Cheng Ho was selected to be castrated by the general in charge of recruiting eunuchs for the court in 1381‚ when he was about 10. Assigned to the retinue of Chu Ti‚ who later became emperor‚ Cheng accompanied him on military campaigns
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During the Punic Wars against Carthage‚ the plebeian smallholders who had to serve in the roman legions found themselves unable to farm their lands‚ unable to pay their taxes. Ultimately they lost their lands and ended up as the Mob‚ an impoverished group in Rome‚ reliant upon handouts. Meanwhile‚ the rich consolidated their lands into huge‚ slave-worked estates that made them even richer. This caused profound social‚ economic and political problems for the Roman state. The upper‚ political class
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