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= **Ming Dynasty** =

== ** The Ming dynasty, despite its growth, focuses on recovering the past rather than discovering the future because they were ethnocentric and didn't believe that they needed to think of new ideas to pioneer the future. This is why they tried to infuse earlier dynasties into their own because they thought that they could live without help or interaction with other nations. Bec ause of this, they did not believe in trade. ** ==

1368- 1644

pgs 469-470, 472 (look at these)

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====== The Forbidden City was the Chinese imperial palace from the Ming Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty. It is located in the middle of Beijing, China, and now houses the Palace Museum. For almost five hundred years, it served as the home of emperors and their households, as well as the ceremonial and political center of Chinese government. there were 200,000 men working on the construction and over one million worked on it overall. It was said to have 9999 rooms because "there was only 10000 rooms in heaven".

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