Pieter Brueghel – European Art
Pieter Brueghel, Children's Games (1560 AD) Did Brueghel see Chinese art? As European traders began to sail directly to China in the late 1400s AD, they brought back all kinds [...]
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Muromachi – Late Medieval Japan
Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (1300s AD) Muromachi family gets power The great families drove out Emperor Do-Gaigo in 1338 AD. Who was the Emperor Do-Gaigo? More Japan articles Then the new shogun was from the [...]
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06, 2017
Who invented playing cards? China
An early playing card (Ming Dynasty, ca. 1500 AD) People in T'ang Dynasty China made the first playing cards, about 800 AD. They used their new material, paper, to make [...]
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06, 2017
What was the Little Ice Age?
Rice paddy with a Chinese man planting rice The Medieval Warm period During the later Middle Ages, the climate, at least in some parts of the world, was a little [...]
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06, 2017
Ming Dynasty China – Chinese History
Hung-Wu Emperor (National Palace Museum, Taipei) After the Hungwu Emperor threw the Mongols out in 1368 AD, he established the Ming Dynasty. But the Hungwu Emperor's power was still pretty [...]
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06, 2017
Medieval China – History
A T'ang Dynasty emperor In 220 AD, Han Dynasty China fell apart into three medium-sized kingdoms, so people call this the Three Kingdoms period. In 581 AD, a general named [...]
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Ming Dynasty Chinese art – Medieval China
Ming Dynasty Chinese art Ming emperors unify Chinese art After the Mongols were thrown out of China, and the Chinese emperors took over again in the Ming Dynasty of the [...]
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06, 2017
Ming Dynasty Architecture – Forbidden City
Hall of Supreme Harmony Forbidden City (Beijing, 1406 AD) - Ming Dynasty Architecture What's the Forbidden City? Early Ming Emperors built Taoist temples to show their power, like the Golden [...]
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06, 2017
Early Chinese Architecture – Shang to Ming – Palaces and pagodas
Early Chinese architecture - A typical Chinese house Chinese houses Most people in ancient China could not afford to live in fancy houses. They lived in small houses made of [...]
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06, 2017
Golden Hall – Wudang Mountain – Chinese Architecture
Golden Hall (Wudang Mountain, 1416 AD) Ming Dynasty emperors built the Golden Hall palace on the slopes of Wudang Mountain in 1416 AD. The Golden Hall was part of the [...]
