China/France DBQ Comparitive

During the period of the mid 15th century to the mid 18th, the emergence of a representative state, France, emerged in the west and temporally in the east the Chinese dynasties of Ming and Qing (although Qing was Manchu) came about which individually created a key political structure in their respective lands. With the emergence of several key political structures the examples of France and China present an example of how the lead rulers made …

…Confucian exam system was almost mandatory to keep the Chinese bureaucracy running seamlessly because without it, a state of this size would not be able to keep a steady flow of able rulers, ruling the country. With the representative state of France in the west and the dynasties of the Chinese in the east, the period of 1450-1750 saw the transformation and materialization of two key political structures that shared many related and unlike characteristics.