Chinese Dynasties: The Rise And Fall Of The Yuan Dynasty

In secret he gave those laborers the military training. Once, the First Emperor of Qin came on a visit to Kuaiji, when he crossed the Zhe River, Xiang Yu had a glimpse at him and said to his uncle that such First Emperor can be defeated and replaced. In 209 BC revolts broke out against the Second Emperor, Qin Er Shi. Chen Sheng and Wu Guang started the rebellion.

Another factor that affected the people and caused them to rebel was the heavy taxes that were put upon them. And finally, the wars that were frequent at that time because of the disunity in the empire. How they came to power The first step that the Tang Dynasty took to begin its empire was reuniting China were it used its strong military power with the lead of Emperor Taizong. Then Li Yuan declared himself the new emperor of the Tang Dynasty to be known later as the founder of the Tang Dynasty.

The British merchants went back angrily and asked the British government to dispatch troops to China. They wanted to use military power to open up the gate of “free trade” in China. After an intensive debate between the war party and the peace group of parliamentarians, they decided to go to war. Unexpectedly from the perspective of the Qing emperor, he lost the war. The emperor Daoguang compromised and dismissed Lin Zexu.

(Doc D) In other words, Smith asserts they failed to prepare and adjust because of their reliance on Native Americans for the first two years. Once Smith left the Natives stopped helping them. It got so bad that

Sui Yangdi (569-618) was the second emperor of the shortly lived Sui Dynasty and was believed to have succeeded the throne in the year 604 after assassinating his father Wendi, the founder of the Sui Dynasty. Yangdi was an oppressive ruler, using forced labor and levying high taxes. He wasted the empire’s resources on many luxuries including constructing lavishly decorated palaces and planting his gardens with mature trees from distant forests. Between the years 612 and 614, Sui Yangdi’s armies embarked on three unsuccessful expeditions to Korea, which led to revolt among the Chinese. Though Yangdi was a somewhat corrupt ruler, he was responsible for the construction of the Grand Canal, a 1,400 mile canal used to transport grain and other goods

The first and most obvious cause to the French Revolution was the royal family themselves. During the period before the revolution the royal family was known for their extravagance, for throwing parties when their people were starving and couldn’t afford bread. Another contributing to the rebellion and revolution were the Class System called the Privileged Estates. France was severely in debt at that time, banks couldn’t give people who needed money because they didn’t have any to give, even with the high taxes.

The Great Wall of Ancient China : Did the Benefits Outweigh the Costs? The Great Wall of China was built by the soldiers and the peasants, but they were controlled by the Han and the Qin Dynasty. The Wall was meant the keep the Mongols (intruders) out . In fact, however the benefits did not outweigh the cost of The Great Wall of China. According to document C it states " soldiers were forced to leave families and villages for several years" and " tens of thousands soldiers died from hunger, sickness, and extreme heat or cold. "

King Louis XVI, who was the ruler at the time, was a main contributor to these problems that led France to its downfall. The country had a massive lack of resources and food, which led King Louis XVI to borrow more money than he could afford, thus putting the country in immense debt. Despite the very visible crisis overthrowing the country, the king was incapable of accepting his mistakes and refused to change his ways. He maintained the unjust voting system, known as the Estates-General, and worsened the taxing system in order to pay off his debts. The people, especially those of the Third Estate, were clearly angry and dissatisfied with the state of the country, which led them seek out a movement for what was right.

Feudalism: Its Rise and Decline With the transformation of the Roman Empire, the empire would no longer be a universal culture. With an ineffective government and no armies, the former empire experienced mass anarchy. Due to its weakened state, the empire had become more vulnerable. Because people need security, a new concept would arise, this concept would be known as feudalism.

Both the French and Russian Revolutions had radical wings that got in the way of the original purpose of the Revolution. The Petrograd Soviet’s radical reforms angered the people just as the radical Mountain angered the people. Additionally, the failure of the original revolutions called for one person to stand up and overthrow the preexisting government to establish a new one. In the case of France, Napoleon staged a coup which eventually led to him crowning himself emperor and maybe in even some ways acting as a dictator. In Russia, Lenin had to step up with Trotsky’s help to overthrow the provisional government and establish his dictatorial socialist government.

Social protest flourished throughout the Han Dynasty. Peasants were unable to pay the taxes

They both fell from similar reasons although there was some differences. One similarity in Han China and Rome was that they were invaded constantly. The Han were invaded by the Xiongnu, the Kazakhs, and Mongols. Emperors in Han china offered the Xiongnu many items in return for peace but they didn 't have enough to pay everyone!Eventually the Han ended the Xiongnu but it came at a price. They had little money left over which put the government into turmoil.

The loss of a great leader combined with a series of bad leaders lead to the weakening of the Yuan dynasty (“The Mongols”). The unrestricted trade the Asia once enjoyed decreased, accompanied by the ending of Mongolian peace (Fitzgerald 238). With peasant uprisings and revolts, the Mongols came crashing down, however, their impact on China was not one that was forgotten. First, Some Mongol practices were continued into the Ming dynasty, specifically the successful Yuan census (“Yuan Dynasty”). The Ming also inherited a huge and successful postal and transportation system.

The Battle of Yorktown was a turning point. The war was going so difficult for the patriots that they were so low on money they couldn 't even supply the soldiers with essentials that the soldiers needed. They even thought that if they allied the war would end pretty quick but it didn 't. The British Army held all of the south, Philadelphia, and New York City. When the Benedict Arnold one of America’s most gifted officer turned out to be a traitor the American Morale took another blow. Charles Cornwallis moved his men to Yorktown Virginia.

The Middle Ages was a period of time in between the age of technology and the Fall of Western Rome. It was generally known as the Dark Ages, as it was a time of stress and confusion for both rich and poor. Without an emperor controlling them, the feudal system was created because it was thought to create order. After all, it is simply putting different people where they belong, but this was not the case, fighting and disease started to spread throughout Western Europe. One of the most popular diseases in Western Europe was the Black Death.