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THE MING GOLDEN AGE - THE YONGLE EMPEROR'S LEGACY
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19:16Now PlayingYongle: "Perpetual Happiness". During his 22 years on the throne, the Ming dynasty's 3rd emperor, son of its founder, would bring the empire to its golden age. Under the second half of his reign, Yongle would restore the Grand Canal, send his admiral Zheng He as far as modern-day Kenya, and more significantly, build the Forbidden City, making Beijing the Ming's new capital city. Yet, trouble would begin to appear in northern Vietnam, integrated as Jiaozhi province, and Mongolia, to which the emperor would personally lead 3 more campaigns, where he would ultimately meet his end... He would leave the Ming dynasty at the height of its might.
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♫ MUSIC ♫
TW Three Kingdoms - Wu Xing
TW Three Kingdoms - Champion of the People
TW Three Kingdoms - Good Fortune
Ming Music Restoration Group - Realm of red pool
TW Three Kingdoms - Metal
TW Three Kingdoms - Oath to the Peach Garden
TW Three Kingdoms - Stratagem
Age of Empires 2 - Vietnamese theme
Chinese Buddhist Music
Age of Empires 2 - Shu theme
Doug Maxwell/Zac Zinger - Sao Meo Orchestral Mix
Civilization V - Mongolia peace theme
Civilization V - Mongolia war theme
Daoist music
TW Three Kingdoms - Harmony
The Loyalist - Lotus Lane
🎬 VIDEO CREDITS 🎬
The Ming Dynasty (2019)
Ghost Fleet: The Epic Voyage of Zheng He (2005)
China's Forbidden City (2008)
📜 MAIN SOURCES 📜
The Cambridge History of China - Volume 7 (1988), Frederick W. Mote & Denis Twitchett
Perpetual Happiness - The Ming Emperor Yongle (2011), Shih-shan Henry Tsai
Dictionary of Ming Biography, 1368-1644 (1976), L. Carrington Goodrich & Chaoying Fang
🏷️ TAGS 🏷️
history of china
ming dynasty
yongle emperor
zhu di
ming chengzu
ming invasion of vietnam
zheng he
treasure fleet
yongle encyclopedia
forbidden city
yongle campaigns
ming golden age
Introduction: (0:00)
Context: (00:33)
The restoration of the Grand Canal: (01:07)
Sailing to Africa: (02:32)
The unruly prince: (05:01)
The Lam Son uprising: (06:45)
A new capital city: (08:34)
The last campaigns: (11:30)
Yongle's legacy: (16:59)
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