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The Ming dynasty was the last native imperial
dynasty in Chinese history.
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Sandwiched
between two foreign dynasties, the Ming stand as one last attempt to hold
Chinese government in native hands
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Humiliated and oppressed by the foreign rule
of the Mongols, the Ming dynasty rises up out of a peasant rebellion to
preside over the greatest economic and social revolution in China before the
modern period.
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The Ming
are also the first to deal with Europeans arriving in ever increasing
numbers; as a pre-modern period, many of the issues and contentions of the
modern period will have their precursors in the Ming dynasty.
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