Imperial China was occasionally dominated by steppe peoples, especially the Mongols and Manchus, most of whom were eventually assimilated into the Han Chinese culture and population.
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Imperial China was occasionally dominated by steppe peoples, especially the Mongols and Manchus, most of whom were eventually assimilated into the Han Chinese culture and population.
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Agriculture in Imperial China developed gradually, with initial domestication of a few grains and animals gradually being expanded by the addition of many others over subsequent millennia.
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Xia dynasty of China is the earliest of the Three Dynasties described in ancient historical records such as Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian and Bamboo Annals.
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The dynasty is generally considered mythical by Western scholars, but in Imperial China it is usually associated with the early Bronze Age site at Erlitou that was excavated in Henan in 1959.
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Yuan dynasty was formally proclaimed in 1271, when the Great Khan of Mongol, Kublai Khan, one of the grandsons of Genghis Khan, assumed the additional title of Emperor of Imperial China, and considered his inherited part of the Mongol Empire as a Chinese dynasty.
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The Grand Canal was reconstructed to connect the remote capital city to economic hubs in southern part of Imperial China, setting the precedence and foundation where Beijing would largely remain as the capital of the successive regimes that unified Imperial China mainland.
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Traditional social structure and culture in Imperial China underwent immense transform during the Mongol dominance.
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Large group of foreign migrants settled in Imperial China, who enjoyed elevated social status over the majority Han Chinese, while enriching Chinese culture with foreign elements.
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Imperial China proclaimed himself emperor and founded the Ming dynasty in 1368.
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In 1449 Esen Tayisi led an Oirat Mongol invasion of northern Imperial China which culminated in the capture of the Zhengtong Emperor at Tumu.
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Between 1673 and 1681, the Kangxi Emperor suppressed the Revolt of the Three Feudatories, an uprising of three generals in Southern Imperial China who had been denied hereditary rule of large fiefdoms granted by the previous emperor.
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Imperial China never rebuilt a strong central army, and many local officials used their military power to effectively rule independently in their provinces.
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Imperial China welcomed assistance from the Soviet Union and he entered into an alliance with the fledgling Chinese Communist Party .
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The virus' origin in Imperial China has led to misinformation, including conspiracy theories that suggest the virus originated in a Chinese laboratory and was genetically engineered.
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