Hongwu+emperor

Hongwu was the founder and the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty. In the middle of teh 1300s, with famine, plagues, and peasant revolts sweeping across China, Hongwu became a leader of an army that conquered China, ending the Yuan Dynastyand forcing the Monglos to retreat to the Mongolian steppes. He then claimed the Mandate of Heaven and established the Ming Dynasty in the year 1368. created by Anna Mack: December 8, 2007