In the Dynastic cycle, the Qing and Ming Dynasties of ancient China showed similar periods of decline.they share their periods because they both were taken over for being corrupt and getting taken down by rebellion. The dynasties are very different from each other but share some similarities. First, I will be talking about the differences that the two dynasties have.one example is from the Ming dynasty they were not originally from China but the Ming dynasty was from China.another difference that they share is that the Ming dynasty had a very strong and cruel authoritarian government. On the other hand, the qing dynasty had a strong economic system so the valued trade.the Ming dynasty still valued trade but not as strongly as the Qing dynasty. …show more content…
The ming dynasty took advantage of that they used that so they could keep improving the ships. Their leader used to be a poor man that grew to be a strong emperor of China. then comes the period of decline was the dynasties lose the mandate of heaven and fall. In the Qing dynasty they feel by becoming corrupt and forgetting about the poor, their military declined, crops were destroyed and since the Qing dynasty became weak and trade was falling out of order England and America became the strongest traders and the Qing dynasty eventually fell. The Ming dynasty was different, however. In the Ming dynasty's period of decline, they fell to rebellion because of the emperor became corrupt with the authoritarian government they grew very overthrown with power.since it was an authoritarian government he could do whatever he wanted and made people do it. So since he grew more and more corrupt he raised taxes so he could get more money for himself. Not only was raising taxes already a problem for the poor now it's even more of a problem.so the poor started to rebel against the Ming dynasty and took it over starting the nex