Account for the Collapse of the Chinese Empire in 1911

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China was once a strong and stable Empire many emperor from past ruled on china most of them ruled for long time and some of them for less time some famous ruler such as Nurhaci (1559–1626) but it began its decline in the 1500s and continued until modern times the last empire was Qing Empire that collapse in 1911. The main reason for empire collapse was refusal to trade with other countries, an uprising against foreign control, and the effect from a change of monarchy to a democracy. The Qing Empire (1644-1912) was the very last great dynastic empire to rule the china. It was effective and long lived rulers in the starting of Chinese of dynastic era; it was a period of success and natural disasters, rebellions, invasions and inept ruling courts at the end.

In 1911 the Qing dynasty was controlled by Manchu minority. So it is also knows as Manchu dynasty was the last dynasty in the Chinese history. The Manchu’s decided on a form of government that hadn’t been used before, democracy. Poorly the democracy was corrupted, peoples votes were easily bought which brought civil war, Xinhai revolution, and the overthrow the Qing Dynasty. This revolution end up with establish of republic of china.

The Qing Dynasty started Manchus who used to live north of the great wall. Manchu’s emerged as people when a tribal ruler name nurhaci started to conquer to other tribes. In 1625 Nurchaci conquer the Ming city of Shenyang and made it his capital they gave his empire a greater base of population and he used their skills. Nurhaci’s have a song who named was hung taiji. So he continues attacking on Ming officials and increases his empire. His empire called jin at first, but later in 1936, he renamed it as “Great Qing Empire”. Dorgon structured the...

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...ing education and knowledge of the world as an alternative they were isolationist because they was fear that if they will provide the education then people will understand the outside world. Even ruler name empress Cixi tried to set up modern school system but she failed.
Some people also led the fall of Qing dynasty such as Sun Yat-Sen in 1908 when emperor and Cixi died the new emperor was only two year old kid because Sun Yat-Sen was already so famous all around the world so his final revolution that was in 1911 broke out and overthrew the Empire of Qing, bringing two thousand years of Chinese feudal monarchy to an end up with republic china.
The Qing dynasty was something that was different from other successive Chinese or aliens powers that preceded it. It seems that the main reason of decline of Chinese empire natural disasters, rebellions, invasions and wars.

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