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7-10-11 **Is there evidence here that Zhu Di truly did not understand what was happening to his rule?**

Zhu Di didn’t understand what was going on because he was not thinking clearly and because of his suffering of the disease that no one knew what it was. He also fell off his horse, and it is likely that he fell on his head, and he previously suffered from strokes and that affects your brain. He was also being treated with an elixir containing arsenic and mercury and that probably poisoned him and it is quite understandable that he didn’t know what was going on when these things were wrong with him in the first place and they don’t allow you to think straight.

**List all the things that happened to the old emperor near the end of his life.**

**Look carefully at the Yuan and Ming Dynasties and make some generalizations about China under those dynasties. Size? Change from previous dynasties? From your reading, make any observations you can about the two time periods.**
 * Storm
 * Fire
 * He fell off a horse.
 * He lost control of his cabinet and China.
 * Attempt to bring Arughtai, didn’t commit to it because there was no money found to be given to start this adventure.
 * Arughtai disappeared.

The size of the Dynasties vary size from previous ones because they weren’t so forceful in the past as they are now.

**The Forbidden City is now the Palace Museum, and is located at the centre of the map below:** **Can you find the old city in the modern city? Where is it? What is there now?**

It is now consisting of hospitals, markets, and inn’s and that is because they built over it and covered the old city with the modern world.

**If it WAS, where would it reach if it began at the Yalu River? Use the map in MWH Atlas p A18-19 to estimate where you would end up if the wall really extended 6,400 kms due west of Beijing.**

**Through what MODERN countries did the silk roads go?** The silk road went through Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, north India, Nepal, Bhutan, and all the way to Beijing, China.

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 * 1) The size of the Dynasties vary size from previous ones because they weren’t so forceful in the past as they are now.
 * 2) It is now consisting of hospitals, markets, and inn’s and that is because they built over it and covered the old city with the modern world.

Questions: 1. On what philosophical assumptions are the Hongwu emperor’s words and actions based? // Confucianism // 2. Do you think that his actions will solve the problems he refers to? Why or why not? I think that his actions will solve the problems he refers to because it will cause less commotion and will help bring peace to the dynasty.

1. **Does the emperor’s approach to solving the problem of evil behavior in this** //The emperor’s approach to solving the problem of evil behavior in this excerpt is to an extent// similar //to the first excerpt in ways like giving away evil but it is different in a way like wanting to banish the things people fancy because he thinks it is hard to do away with these things on someone’s own and wants them to model himself.// //he decides to banish and ‘help’ his subjects get rid of them without them trying because he thinks that people will follow his footsteps because he is better than th others, and they should value him.//
 * excerpt differ from that in the first? If so, how? **

Confucianism
 * On what philosophical assumptions are Hongwu’s words here based? Think Chinese philosophy. **


 * As an official, what would be your reaction to the emperor’s admonitions?**

// As an official at that time, I would encourage it because I would believe that he is trying to help his people and banish evil from his lands, because that is what he is telling us. // I prefer the first one 4. The emperor clearly holds himself up as a model of self-restraint for his officials to emulate. As an official, how would you take this?

// As an official at that time, I would take this rather well and follow his leadership skills in order to gain his acceptance. //

5. Would your reaction be changed if you suddenly learned that the Hongwu emperor had dozens of concubines and consorts, with whom he fathered twenty-six sons and sixteen daughters?

// Yes my reaction would change and my first though about this would be that he is a hypocrite and has been lying to his own people. //