Group+3+-+Economic+and+Social+Change;+Patriarchs+and+Population+Growth+(731-735)+2

=Group 3 - Economic and Social Change; Patriarchs and Population Growth (731-735)=

= Economic and Social Changes = -Ming and Qing Emperors wanted to restore traditional Chinese ways THE PATRIARCHAL FAMILY GENDER RELATIONS POPULATION GROWTH AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT POPULATION GROWTH FOREIGN TRADE TRADE AND MIGRATION TO SOUTHEAST ASIA
 * -Family = very important to Chinese,
 * -Filial Piety: duties of children to fathers and loyalty to the emperor.
 * -Clans also were the functioning of the society
 * supported education of the poor
 * -Women always subjected to men.
 * -Girls seen as liabilities socially and financially
 * -Boys became more wanted than girls so more infanticide of girls
 * -Raise the girl then she would go join a different family
 * -If hubby dies girls were encouraged to commit suicide to show loyality to their hubbies by following them to the grave.
 * -foot binding was used to make girls more attractive.
 * -pretty commoner girl's feet were sometimes bonded in hopes the girl would marry and enchance the family's social standing
 * -new bride least important in a family.
 * -China very agriculturally based but very small amount of land suitable for farming.
 * -New food crops from the Americas allowed the Chinese to use land that was once not cultivated
 * -Spanish Merchants introduced corn, sweet potatoes, and peanuts to Chinese to farm.
 * -New crops made population grow majorly.
 * -land got very productive mid-17th century
 * -1600CE=160million people even with the disease
 * -mid-17th century it fell to 140 million because of war
 * -1750CE = 225Million, makes it a 40% increase because of that there were small Social and economic problems.
 * - because of population increase there was very cheap labor at easy Access
 * -Exported lotsa:
 * -silk porcelain, laquerware, and tea
 * -only imported:
 * -Maluku Spices, Exotic birds and animal skins, woolen textiles from Europe

GOVERNMENT AND TECHNOLOGY
 * -Chineses merchants were prominent Manila
 * -Mainly traded procelain and silk for silver
 * -During Ming times technological innovation had slowed
 * -Europeans took gunpowdered weapons and improved them
 * -Little innovation in agricultural and industrial technologies
 * -Slow down because of government
 * -Ming and Qing regimes favored political and social stability over the invention of new technologies