HIST 1007 Lecture : Final Noteswap Copy
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Most of the chinese were peasants, barely making it: if the majority of chinese people were poor how did they become so relevant, china"s values emphasized the whole instead of an individual. They believed that personal wealth was not nearly as important as the wealth of the entire people: government, the chinese emperor was said to have heavenly power, the. You had to pass many testes on studies of confucian philosophy. You were recognized as the highest group of people in. He was very paranoid and killed 100,000 people in fear of plotting against him. He created an army of discontented peasants to take power from the mongols: ming was not his family name, but it was chinese for brilliant. It was a propaganda move: hongwu"s son created the forbidden city making it the largest palace in the world. The ming almost made the temple of heaven which was thought to be the axis of heaven.
