Historical Urban Atlas: 1300 to 1400: Beijing Map; Shanxi Map; Daehan Map; Nippon Map

  • Table of Contents
  • Methodology
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    maps showing Beijing, Shanxi, Daehan and Nippon, 1300-1400

    From 1368 to 1409 Beijing was not capital of Zhonghua, and declined temporarily with many houses still in ruins in 1419.1 Kamakura was demoted from national to prefectural capital; this alone ensured a decline, but the dynastic change precipitated anarchic wars, which furthered the decline.

    The opposite happened with Söul, which became capital of the nascent Chöson dynasty's state in 1394, and thus grew.

    Footnotes

    1. Houses in ruins: Tertius Chandler, in the book cited in the Methodology pg. 439, cites Shadi Khoja (pg. 472), which he found in Robert Kerr, ed., General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, 1811-24, London.