Explain the role of peasants in the establishment of the Ming dynasty

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

A. Role of peasants in Ming dynasty
1. Peasants' lives sometimes seem slow and changeless
a. response is to wait and pray for the millennium for the world to
end or establish perfection
b. in times of extreme disaster, peasant movements arise to try to
trigger the consummation
c. movement began in China in 1350
2. Chinese peasants harbored folk memories of the Song dynasty
a. hankering for the good times that had supposedly preceded the
Mongol invasions
b. revolutions want to "revolve" the world back full circle, to an
imagined or misremembered golden age
3. Mongol rulers executed a pretender who claimed to be the heir of the Song
a. revolt broke out among his followers
b. recruited thousands to their cause
1. peasants forced to work on repairs to the Grand Canal
2. members of the elite who resented at the ruling
dynasty's partiality for foreign advisers
4. Zhu Yuanzhang, the recruiting officer of a rebel band emerged asleader
1. conquered his rivals
2. represented himself as a mere servant of the rebel cause
5. powerful enough that he proclaimed the start of a new Ming dynasty