The cultural development of India

Political stability and general welfare that India met with the Gupta dynasty served as a
stimulus for the flourishing of science, philosophy, sculpture, painting, literature and dance.
A sample of this artistic development are the cave paintings of Ajanta Buddhist complex.

China Ming
In 1368, a revolution ousted the Mongol Yuan dynasty and imposed the Ming Dynasty (13681644) in China. The government of the Ming meant a period of stability and prosperity, but
also back to traditions and an attitude of distrust foreign.

Ming reorganized the administration retaking the traditional Chinese model. The emperor
was the head of state and his ministers accompanied him, the Imperial Council and the
servants palace eunuchs.

The empire was divided into prefectures and provinces that depended directly on the
emperor. In addition, practice exams for promotion in the bureaucracy resumed.

At the beginning, the early Ming emperors promoted agriculture, trade and maritime
expeditions, making China the world's largest economy. By the sixteenth century the Ming
economy was stimulated by trade with the Portuguese, Somali, Spanish and Dutch. China
was embroiled in an emerging global trade in materials, plants, animals, food and grain
known as Columbian trade. Unfortunately later emperors assumed a protectionist stance
and banned international trade. That stopped the growth of the country to the sixteenth
century.