HIST 010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Chinese Mythology, Primogeniture, Kublai Khan
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Today we will be talking about chinese history and in particular the ming dynasty, how it was established and why during the earlier ming dynasty china was the most advanced and powerful country yet seen in history. Even though kubilai khan was a mongol, he was a huge fan of. Chinese civilization, he even lived in chinese cities and did his best to rule like a chinese emperor. However after kubilai khan dies the mongol rule in china began to fall apart, the chinese believed this was the cycle of history or in other words history always repeats itself: The chinese believed that ruling dynasties always began well, roughly during the first half of any dynasty things went well (peace, prosperity, good gov"t, etc) But the chinese believed that it was inevitable that at some point every dynasty would begin to fall apart, things would go bad and that this not only applied to the chinese, but.
