Winnipeg Commodity Exchange
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Sino-Tibetan relations during the Ming dynasty
While the Ming dynasty traded horses with Tibet, it upheld a policy of outlawing border markets in the north, which Laird sees as an effort to punish the Mongols for their raids and to "drive them from the frontiers of China." However, after Altan Khan (1507–1582)—leader of the Tümed Mongols who overthrew the Oirat Mongol confederation's hegemony over the steppes—made peace with the Ming dynasty in 1571, he persuaded the Ming to reopen their border markets in 1573. This provided the Chinese with a new supply of horses that the Mongols had in excess; it was also a relief to the Ming, since they were unable to stop the Mongols from periodic raiding. Laird says that despite the fact that later Mongols believed Altan forced the Ming to view him as an equal, Chinese historians argue that he was simply a loyal Chinese citizen. By 1578, Altan Khan formed a formidable Mongol-Tibetan alliance with the Gelug that the Ming viewed from afar without intervention.
Simao District
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Ming-Na Wen
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Ganges Delta
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American Quarter Horse
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Ministry of Home Affairs (Bangladesh)
People's Republic of Bangladesh Ministry of Home Affairs স্বরাষ্ট্র মন্ত্রণালয় Sarāṣṭra Montronaloya Government Seal of Bangladesh Agency overview Formed April 14, 1971; 46 years ago (1971 - 04 - 14) Jurisdiction Government of Bangladesh Headquarters Building # 8, Bangladesh Secretariat, Dhaka Annual budget 8857, 59, 98 thousand taka (2013 - 2014) Minister responsible Asaduzzaman Khan Child agencies Bangladesh Police Bangladesh Coast Guard Bangladesh Ansar Department of Narcotics Control Border Guards Bangladesh Website http://www.mha.gov.bd
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Qing dynasty
The government broadened land ownership by returning land that had been sold to large landowners in the late Ming period by families unable to pay the land tax. To give people more incentives to participate in the market, they reduced the tax burden in comparison with the late Ming, and replaced the corvée system with a head tax used to hire laborers. The administration of the Grand Canal was made more efficient, and transport opened to private merchants. A system of monitoring grain prices eliminated severe shortages, and enabled the price of rice to rise slowly and smoothly through the 18th century. Wary of the power of wealthy merchants, Qing rulers limited their trading licenses and usually refused them permission to open new mines, except in poor areas. These restrictions on domestic resource exploration, as well as on foreign trade, are held by some scholars as a cause of the Great Divergence, by which the Western world overtook China economically.
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Simla Agreement
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Chinese name
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Sino-Tibetan relations during the Ming dynasty
Dawa Norbu argues that modern Chinese Communist historians tend to be in favor of the view that the Ming simply reappointed old Yuan dynasty officials in Tibet and perpetuated their rule of Tibet in this manner. Norbu writes that, although this would have been true for the eastern Tibetan regions of Amdo and Kham's "tribute-cum-trade" relations with the Ming, it was untrue if applied to the western Tibetan regions of Ü-Tsang and Ngari. After the Phagmodrupa Changchub Gyaltsen, these were ruled by "three successive nationalistic regimes," which Norbu writes "Communist historians prefer to ignore."
Naria Upazila
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Bangladesh Armed Forces
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By what name is the Brahmaputra known in Bangladesh, and the region that the Ming once traded horses with?
Who did the Ming trade horses with?
Tibet
by what name is the brahmaputra known in #1 and bangladesh
Tsangpo - Brahmaputra