by AllisonImportant
Events by Allison
The Ming dynasty rebilut the Great wall of China because it was crumbling. In 1368, the Ming dynasty chased the Mongols out of China, then started to rule. The Yongle Emperor moved the Ming goverment Nanjing to Beijing and put in its place a huge palace called te Forbidden City. They put a gate there to show people to stay out. They also put out side for their Emperer some guards. If they caught someone in the court yard or in the Forbidden City Palace without any permition they would kill you.
You know that Colubus sailed to America in his
St. Maria boat {eighty five feeet long}. But did you know though
that Zheng He went to many places throughout South Pacific,
Indian Ocean, Taiwan, and Pesian Gulf? Zheng He's journey was
some eighty years before Columbus's journey. Zheng He's treasure
ship is four hundred feet long. Much longer than Columbus's ship.
He is the most well none to be the famous navigator. He traveled
forty eight years. More than 50,000km. He visited over thirty
countries in all this time. Zheng He died in the tenth year of
Xuannde. He was buried in the outskirts of a plce called Bull's
Head Hill in Nanjing. The Ming ended when the Ming army lost the
war againset the Tungusic leader who later founded the Qing
dynesty. The emperor Chongzhen had hung himself the day before
the Ming Dynesty came to its end. A year after the war the Wanli
emperor died and the rebal leader Li Zicheng entered Beijing. 
The thin lines on this map represents the parts of the Great Wall of China that the Ming dynasty added to the Great Wall as they rebuilt it.
The bolder parts on this map represent the wall that the Ming rebuilt and the Qin made before us.
Even though the Great Wall can go back to the Qin it is truly
a Ming creation.
This is the great wall of China today. The long wall in this picture is thousands of miles long. The Qin Dynasty first made a wall like this, but the MingDynasty rebuilt it and added on to the original. The Great Wall is now not just a creation of the Qin dynasty, but of the Ming because of what they did to help rebuild the wall that was wrecked by the Mongols years ago. Now the Ming also gets some credit!
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