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Ming China's Yongle Emperor sent maritime expeditions under Admiral Zheng He to establish imperial control over the maritime trade, to bring the maritime trade into the tributary system and to force foreign countries to comply with the tributary system. But the expeditions were stopped to divert...

According to some historians in Asia, during the Imjin War (When Japan under Toyotomi Hideyoshi invaded the Kingdom of Joseon), supposedly the Kingdom of Ayutthaya (Modern-Day Thailand), made a proposal to the Ming Chinese. They offered to dispatch a naval force to sail and attack Japan...

(So, I'm trying to come up with an idea for a concept for a private project of mine, inspired by @Ambassador Huntsman's timeline amazing Nobunaga's Ambition Timeline (Go read it if you haven't), but not using the Gavin Menzies' 1421 idea; I want late East Asian colonization, where Japan...

Thoughts?

So I found out a few days ago about Altan Khan, a powerful Mongol ruler who led several raids into Ming China's northern borders and attacked Beijing's suburbs in 1550, with the wikipedia article on him saying he actually laid siege to the city but providing no other information about it other...

In 1592, the Japanese invaded the Korea, which has become known as the Imjin War. Toyotomi Hideyoshi, ruler of Japan, gathered large armies to invade the Korean Peninsula to invade China. There were many speculations on why Hideyoshi invaded Korea: Some say it was Megalomania for Hideyoshi to...

The Yongle Emperor famously gained prestige by reverting a loss of the Tang Dynasty by conquering Vietnam and holding it during his reign. However Vietnam was extremely rebellious during his reign and once he dropped out, the region seceded almost immediately with the local Ming garrisons and...

In 1597 AD, the Chinese Emperor, Wanli discussed a theoretical invasion of Japan if the Japanese did not cease in their attempt of taking Korea and entering Mainland Asia. The Ming had the ships to do so, and alongside the Koreans, the manpower to do so. Furthermore, as Japanese and Toyotomi...

The Great Yuan, heirs of Genghis & Kublai, ruled over China for over a century, before being pushed back to the steppes by the rising Ming Dynasty. The remaining Mongols had a mixed relationship with Ming China, sometimes allies & sometimes adversaries, and occasionally rose to even threaten...

In OTL, the Wanli Emperor had a dispute with his court, where he make his son, Zhu Changxun, to succeed him as Emperor. However, the court opposed this, wanting Zhu Changluo, future emperor Taichang Emperor to succeed him. Then the Wanli Emperor stopped in his government duty, practically...

In 1403, Timur invaded China through Moghulistan allied with northern Yuan under Bunyashiri( who converted to islam as an appeasement to the Emir). Yongle being busy in Jingnan civil war was unable to react in time. In the battle of UngleJian* Timur defeated a large Ming force under Yongle...

What if Ferdinand Magellan won the Battle of Mactan and established a Spanish foothold in Asia four decades earlier than IOTL? What would be the political, cultural and economic consequences of this, and how significant could they be? Could it somehow affect things not only in Maphilindo, but...

I was reading through Zheng He by Zhou Zibin, given to me by my professor who is from mainland china. In chapter 27 of the book, the book records using ming records that in 1410, a drought in the lucrative fur trade had created a small economic downturn which was negatively impacting the...

Historically, during the 16th Century, the Ming Dynasty's Navy was very poor, which is ironic, as nearly a century ago, they had Treasure Fleets to show their supremacy. After that, their Navy went into decline. Sure, they Ming had naval victories against the Portuguese in the 1520s, and the...

I don't know much about the Timurids but I expect that this would be nigh impossible to do. But say all of the Ming's top generals and administrators get a sudden case of stupid just as Timur starts his campaign and the madman actually manages to pull it off. What happens afterwards?

Jayasithi Malla of Nepa conquered around 1/3 of modern Nepal before dying of a disease as a middle aged man all things considered. Let's say he doesn't and by the time of his death, he has conquered enough territory that it vaguely resembles modern day Nepal. Now i am interested in the impacts...

Zhu Changxun was the son of the Wanli Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, to his favorite concubine, Noble Consort Zheng. His father wanted him to succeed him in becoming emperor, but the Wanli Emperor was met with opposition by his advisors, and his son, the future Taichang Emperor, would become heir...

What if after the death of the Wanli Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the Donglin Academy is more successful in gaining influence in the court and possibly pushing for reforms? What kind of reforms will they undergo and what will the future Ming Dynasty look like with a Donglin-influenced Ming Dynasty?

IOTL, despite the rapid rise of gunpowder weaponry and China being its inventor and early pioneers, the bow and arrow were still seen in equal measure as much as gunpowder weapons were, your challenge is to create a scenario where the Ming dynasty has guns and cannons play a bigger role in their...

What if during Russia's siberian expansion they conquer the Manchu and the land north of the wall before the Manchu conquer China? I guess the Ming would be dealing with their own chaos and decline so the Manchus are on their own but it also means the Ming would get replaced by a non Manchu...