Greetings everyone, Lhasla Montgomery here. Sorry about all those ads and PSAs.

We're back with more of this light, but still informative, nonetheless overview of Chinese imperial

history, sha Shataching.

We finished off with the Mongol conquest of the Southern Son.

So you might want to go check out episodes 169 and 170

for an overview of the rise and fall of the Mongols.

It's a long story as far as why this is out of order, but one of the earliest things I

ever did when I began the CHP was the standalone episode on Kublai Khan that I ended up getting rid of and replacing

with this two-partar on the Mongols from Temujin to the fall of the dynasty in 1368.

And in this episode, covering part one of the Ming,

we'll look at the lead up to and founding of the dynasty,

once the once unvanquishable Mongols, were vanquished.

I can summarize in a few paragraphs what happened to the Yend dynasty founded by Kublai Khan in

1271 after he passed from the scene.

Basically, nobody could hold it together.

Kublai Khan left a whole lot of grandsons and it didn't take long before they were all conspiring against each other and

internal squabbles just speeded up the demise of the Yren dynasty.

Despite all the great and lasting things they did for China, the administration of the government

and the army was in total shambles.

Nobody was in charge and by the 13-20s, 30s and 40s there followed one natural disaster

after another, particularly with floods up in the north, and this was always the classic harbinger of the end of the dynasty.

You see, like Chinsheur Huang and Sui Wen Di, two great conquering emperors who went on to found dynasties.

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