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The major gunpowder empires are the Ottomans, Mughals, Safavids, and Ming China because each had centralized bureaucracy suited to early gunpowder warfare.
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Volley fire solves the musket's inaccuracy and slowness by organizing massed soldiers to fire in sequence rather than relying on individual aim.
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Maritime trade initiated by the Abbasid Caliphate shifted Chinese economic power toward the coast, threatening regional balance and imperial security.
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Ming and Qing trade restriction reflects a Chinese priority for internal stability over wealth and prosperity.
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"That's what the Greeks did against the Persians. But with gunpowder, you need a professional army, you need engineers, you need the resources that..."
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"...powerful of these gunpowder empires is China, okay? This is the Ming Empire."
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"...And that's the idea. And that's why these armies, like the Ming and the elements, were most able to use gunpower effectively, because they..."
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"And by the time of the Song, they're actually congregating to the coast. All right? So why is this happening? It's happening because of..."
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"...it was causing wealth inequality in China. And that's why the Ming Dynasty will shut down this trade network. Not completely, but mostly. Okay?..."
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"...leaders in the past. People like Zhu Yuanzhang, okay, of the Ming Dynasty. These people. But in order to create legitimacy, in order to,..."
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"...The Yuan Dynasty will eventually fall and give rise to the Ming Empire. Okay? So even though they conquer a lot of territory. Ultimately..."
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"...people, which ultimately led to a rebellion that will establish the Ming Empire, and eventually the Ming Empire will give way to the Qing..."
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"The Manchus are just another iteration of the Ming Empire. They will rule China until 1911, when the empire is overthrown, a republic is..."
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"...unite all of China. And then after the Yuan Dynasty, the Ming is also pretty united, and the Qing is extremely united, okay? So..."
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"...a very strong leader, like, for example, Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, okay? These are extremely capable..."
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"...better. But when you get to the Song, the Yuan, the Ming, and the Qing, it's all pretty unified nationally."
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Gunpowder is not powerful because it makes a louder weapon.
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Genghis Khan is not explained by saying the Mongols were uniquely evil.
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China had the technologies that made modernity possible, then built a political culture that made those technologies inert.
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Shanghai can win PISA and still not prove that its schools are forming whole people.
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