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One million square kilometres larger than the Spanish Empire. Stretching from the mouth of the Amur River to the mountains of Tibet and the fertile fields of Nanjing. The Qing Dynasty, or the Great Qing, was the undisputed economic, political and cultural master of Asia, and indeed the whole world for a time.

The Qing Dynasty was one of many conquest dynasties of China, that is to say, that the Empire was controlled by an ethnicity outside of China Proper. Other conquest dynasties include the Mongol Yuan Dynasty and the Jurchen Jin Dynasty. The Qing Dynasty was controlled by the Manchu peoples.

The Qing Dynasty can trace back it’s origin to Khan Nurhaci. He united the Jurchen tribes of Manchuria and quickly united a lot of the squabbling Manchurian tribes against the once-mighty Ming Dynasty of China. He died the year 1626 as Khan of the Later Jin Dynasty which would eventually grow into the Qing Dynasty. The Qing quickly grew and had by 1820 subjugated the Mongol, Tibetan, and Zunghar lands

The Qing dynasty maintained the same style of Han Confucian Meritocratic administrative practices that the earlier Chinese dynasties had developed while the upper class retained a lot of their Manchurian heritage and traditions. They kept the tributary system of earlier dynasties, receiving regular tribute from Dai Nam, Siam, Nepal, Bhutan, Korea, the Langfang Republic, Ryukyu, Kirgiz, Kazakhs and others.

In it’s later years, the Qing dynasty fell into a slow decline, nagged by foreign influences on the Chinese market, rebellions and military interventions by Western powers and Japan. The last Emperor was forced to abdicate in 1912 by republican rebels.

Description
One million square kilometres larger than the Spanish Empire. Stretching from the mouth of the Amur River to the mountains of Tibet and the fertile fields of Nanjing. The Qing Dynasty, or the Great Qing, was the undisputed economic, political and cultural master of Asia, and indeed the whole world for a time.

The Qing Dynasty was one of many conquest dynasties of China, that is to say, that the Empire was controlled by an ethnicity outside of China Proper. Other conquest dynasties include the Mongol Yuan Dynasty and the Jurchen Jin Dynasty. The Qing Dynasty was controlled by the Manchu peoples.

The Qing Dynasty can trace back it’s origin to Khan Nurhaci. He united the Jurchen tribes of Manchuria and quickly united a lot of the squabbling Manchurian tribes against the once-mighty Ming Dynasty of China. He died the year 1626 as Khan of the Later Jin Dynasty which would eventually grow into the Qing Dynasty. The Qing quickly grew and had by 1820 subjugated the Mongol, Tibetan, and Zunghar lands

The Qing dynasty maintained the same style of Han Confucian Meritocratic administrative practices that the earlier Chinese dynasties had developed while the upper class retained a lot of their Manchurian heritage and traditions. They kept the tributary system of earlier dynasties, receiving regular tribute from Dai Nam, Siam, Nepal, Bhutan, Korea, the Langfang Republic, Ryukyu, Kirgiz, Kazakhs and others.

In it’s later years, the Qing dynasty fell into a slow decline, nagged by foreign influences on the Chinese market, rebellions and military interventions by Western powers and Japan. The last Emperor was forced to abdicate in 1912 by republican rebels.