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How Did the Qing Build a Multi-Ethnic State to Challenge the Ming? - The Invention of the Manchu Identity | Sleepy Facts About History
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In the autumn of 1626, a council of princes gathered in Mukden to choose a successor to Nurhaci, the founder of the Later Jin dynasty. The man they selected, Hong Taiji, inherited a frontier khanate organized around Jurchen tribal loyalty, but he spent his seventeen-year reign building something far larger. This episode examines how Hong Taiji transformed a personal confederation into a bureaucratic empire capable of claiming the Mandate of Heaven and competing with the Ming dynasty for…
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