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1 Ming's Economic Decline
Various infighting + change of leadership caused a slow but sure period of economic decline in China.
1.1 w.r.t. Zheng He's Missions
1.2 w.r.t. Botched Reopening
1.3 w.r.t Declining Currency
1.4 China's Centralization Argument
- Decentralized? => Ports had almost no central control
- Centralized? => Government structure centralized, but infighting and smuggling
- Centralized policy maneuvers lead to local chaos that could only be addressed to local control, but central control got too big