However, from the middle of the Ming era, the Chinese government lost control in Amdo, and the Mongols again seized political control.

Late Ming Xiaopin - A book published in the late Ming era.

These features of the Ming era - almost modern by Xi'an standards - are the first to catch the eye.

Some of the instruments from the Ming era are now at Purple Mountain Observatory in Nanjing.

These carving are described to be great works of art of the Ming era.

The Chinese invented paper, gunpowder, rockets, the great sailing vessels of the Ming era.

They soon found themselves working in a quite different intellectual and political environment than their predecessors during the Ming era.

The scholar-officials' dependence upon the economic activities of the merchants became more than a trend when it was semi-institutionalized by the state in the mid Ming era.

The government followed this guideline by the mid Ming era when it allowed merchants to take over the state monopoly of salt production.

During the Ming era, China imported tobacco, pineapples, peanuts, and syphilis.