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What were the bricks of Nanjing's great Ming pagoda made of?
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About how old is the Great Wall at Badaling?
Answer: About 500 years
Why: Qin Shi Huang linked up older walls over 2,200 years ago, but most of those walls have since eroded away.
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Which Jesuit drew a world map printed in Beijing in 1602?
Answer: Matteo Ricci
Why: Unlike most European maps of the time, it put the Pacific in the middle, which placed China near the center of the world.
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Whose army seized Beijing from the Ming in 1644?
Answer: Li Zicheng
Why: Li Zicheng had proclaimed his own Shun dynasty, yet he held Beijing for only about six weeks before Qing forces took it.
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Which European country set up a base at Macau under the Ming?
Answer: Portugal
Why: Macau returned to China only in 1999, after 442 years of Portuguese presence.
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Where was the Ming dynasty's first capital?
Answer: Nanjing
Why: In 1421 the court moved to Beijing, whose name means 'northern capital', while Nanjing means 'southern capital'.
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Who reigned longest of all the Ming emperors?
Answer: Wanli Emperor
Why: Wanli held the throne for 48 years, from 1572 to 1620, three more than the Jiajing Emperor's 45.
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