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The Ming court in Beijing fell in 1644, but Southern Ming loyalist regimes held parts of the south for another 18 years, ending when the Yongli claimant, handed over by the king of Burma, was executed at Kunming in 1662.
Before and after
In the Central Plains of China:Came before: Yuan dynasty Came after: Qing dynasty
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A former peasant and Buddhist novice, Zhu Yuanzhang, drove out the Mongols and founded a dynasty that built the Forbidden City and the brick Great Wall most visitors picture today, and sent Zheng He's treasure fleets as far as East Africa some eighty years before Vasco da Gama reached the same coast. Later Ming emperors turned the empire inward, and peasant rebellion, not foreign conquest, first broke it open in 1644.