China/France DBQ Comparitive

During the period of the mid 15th century to the mid 18th, the emergence of a representative state, France, emerged in the west and temporally in the east the Chinese dynasties of Ming and Qing (although Qing was Manchu) came about which individually created a key political structure in their respective lands. With the emergence of several key political structures the examples of France and China present an example of how the lead rulers made …showed first 75 words of 419 total…

…showed last 75 words of 419 total…Confucian exam system was almost mandatory to keep the Chinese bureaucracy running seamlessly because without it, a state of this size would not be able to keep a steady flow of able rulers, ruling the country. With the representative state of France in the west and the dynasties of the Chinese in the east, the period of 1450-1750 saw the transformation and materialization of two key political structures that shared many related and unlike characteristics.