Under the rule of Yongle Emperor, who built the Forbidden City and commanded Zhenghe to explore the world overseas, Ming Dynasty's territory reached pinnacle.

* Under the Yongle Emperor of Ming China, work begins to reinstate the ancient Grand Canal of China, which fell into disuse and dilapidation during the previous Yuan Dynasty.

Under the Ming Dynasty, commerce in Northeast Asia and Sakhalin was placed under the " system for subjugated peoples ", or ximin tizhi.

Under the late Ming dynasty and the Qing dynasty that followed it, Zhejiang's ports were important centers of international trade.

Under the authorization of Stalin and Comintern, the delegation of CPC to Comintern led by Wang Ming issued a manifesto urging Chinese to set up a new united front against the Japanese, which was later called the Ba Yi Xuan Yan.

Under the Ming dynasty, Shaanxi was incorporated into Gansu but was again separated in the Qing dynasty.

Under the Ming Dynasty, the law protected both slaves and free citizens.

Under the Yuan Dynasty ( 1206 – 1368 ) the island became an independent province then in 1370 was placed under the administration of Guangdong Province by the ruling Ming Dynasty.

Under the brilliant commander, Yuan Chonghuan, the Ming was able to repeatedly fight off the Manchus, notably in 1626 at Ning-yuan and in 1628.

Under repeated requests from Ming China, Gwanghaegun commanded Gang Hong-rip to help Ming forces with ten thousand soldiers against the Manchus in 1619.

Under Yan Song, the nation fell into an era of moral decadence and corruption, where righteous officers were sidelined and the Ming national strength fell rapidly.

Under the leadership of Wang Gao, the confederation raided the Ming frontier and even killed the Ming commander at Fushun in 1573.

In 2006, Hoffs teamed up with fellow Ming Tea rocker Matthew Sweet ; under the name " Sid n Susie ," they recorded fifteen cover versions of classic rock songs from the 1960s and 1970s for an album titled Under the Covers, Vol.

Under the Yuan ( 1206 – 1368 ) and Ming ( 1368 – 1644 ) dynasties the mining of silver was begun there.

* The theme song of the Once Upon a Time in China series is based on the Ming Dynasty folk song " Under the General's Orders "; the version used in the films is titled " A Man Of Determination " and was written by Wong Jim.

Under the Ming dynasty Wuhu developed into a major commercial center and river port, and since that time has been known as a center of the rice trade.

Under the commander Mu Ying, the Ming forces attacked the Baiyi with firearms, taking a claimed 30, 000 heads.

Under the Comnenian dynasty ( 1081 – 1185 ), Byzantium staged a remarkable recovery.

Under the rulers of the Nervan-Antonian dynasty, senatorial authors published histories which elaborated on the view of Domitian as a tyrant.

Under his son and successor, Henry VI, the Hohenstaufen dynasty reached its apex.

Under the leadership of the Duguwa dynasty, the Zaghawa would eventually dominate the Sao, but not before adopting many of their customs.

Under the Almoravid dynasty and the Almohad dynasty, Morocco dominated the Maghreb and Muslim Spain.

Under the Saadi dynasty, Morocco would consolidate power and fight off Portuguese and Ottoman invaders, as in the battle of Ksar el Kebir.

Under the Catalan dynasty, the 12th century saw the construction of important cathedrals and abbeys in Provence, in a harmonious new style, the romanesque, which united the Gallo-Roman style of the Rhone Valley with the Lombard style of the Alps.

Under Al-Muizz Lideenillah, the Fatimids entered Egypt ( may refer Fatimid Egypt ) in the late 10th century, conquering the Ikhshidid dynasty, and founding a new capital at al-Qāhira ( Cairo ) in 969.

Under the Samanid dynasty ( 819 – 999 ), whose founder Saman Khuda of an Zoroastrian Sassanian Persian had converted to Islam, the city came to be known as Binkath.

Under the Carolingian dynasty, the chief duty of the Neustrian king was to defend the sovereignty of the Franks over the Bretons.

Under the succeeding Kassite dynasty, shortly after the middle of the 2nd millennium, Ekur was restored once more to its former splendour, several monarchs of that dynasty built upon and adorned it, and thousands of inscriptions, dating from the time of those rulers, have been discovered in its archives.

Under the Bourbons dynasty of the Kingdom of Two Sicilies, Taormina did not have a relevant role ; however, it obtained an easier access when part of the Catrabico promontory was partially cut and a seaside road connecting it to Messina and Catania was created.

Under the Achaemenid dynasty Merv is mentioned as being a place of some importance: under the name of Margu it occurs as part of one of the satrapies in the Behistun inscriptions ( ca 515 BC ) of the Persian monarch Darius Hystaspis.

Under the Ur III dynasty, Umma became an important provincial center.

Under Gaozu's reign, the influence of Confucianism increased and gradually replaced Legalism, which dominated and prevailed in the previous dynasty.

Under Emperor Xuan, the Han dynasty prospered economically and militarily.

Under the Qing dynasty, the Board of Public Censors consisted of forty or fifty members, and two presidents, one of Manchu ancestry and the other of Chinese ancestry.

Under Queen Ranavalona III, the final monarch in the Merina dynasty, there were three official groups of state musicians: one for the queen, one for her prime minister, and another for the city of Antananarivo.

Chiang Kai-shek considered both the Han Chinese and all the minority peoples of China, the Five Races Under One Union, as descendants of Huangdi, the Yellow Emperor and semi mythical founder of the Chinese nation, and belonging to the Chinese Nation Zhonghua Minzu and he introduced this into Kuomintang ideology, which was propagated into the educational system of the Republic of China.

Under American advice ( by American envoy John Kenneth Galbraith who made and ran American policy on the war as all other top policy makers in USA were absorbed in coincident Cuban Missile Crisis ) Nehru refrained, not according to the best choices available, from using the Indian air force to beat back the Chinese advances.

Under the terms of an agreed lease, the Japanese government had the right to station its troops in the area around the South Manchurian Railway, a major trade route between the two countries, in the Chinese region of Manchuria.

Under Chinese influence, the first European power to successfully implement a merit-based civil system was the British Empire, in their administration of India.

Under influence from other genres such as kanshi, Chinese poetry, novels and stories such as Tale of Genji and even Western poetry, it has developed gradually, broadening its repertoire of expression and topics.

Under Chinese tributary system, Korean aristocrats ( Yangban ) were devoted to factional disputes in politics.

Under Japanese control Manchuria was one of the most brutally run regions in the world, with a systematic campaign of terror and intimidation against the local Russian and Chinese populations including arrests, organised riots and other forms of subjugation.

Under Abbasid rule, the legend goes, the secret of papermaking was obtained from two Chinese prisoners from the Battle of Talas in 751, which led to the first paper mill in the Islamic world being founded in Samarkand.

Under Putin, Russia has sought to strengthen ties with the People's Republic of China by signing the Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation as well building the Trans-Siberian oil pipeline geared toward growing Chinese energy needs.

Under Jiang's leadership, the crackdown on Falun Gong became part of the Chinese political ethos of " upholding stability " – much the same rhetoric employed by the party during Tiananmen in 1989.

Under Emperor Wen, the Liu Song economy prospered in the rule of Yuanjia ( Chinese: 元嘉之治 ), a famed period of precious prosperity in the 400 years of conflict between the Han and Tang dynasties.

Under efforts of masters from this school, traditional Chinese art reached another climax and continued to the present in forms of " Chinese painting " ( 中国画 ), or guohua ( 国画 ) for short.

Under Liu Yuan's leadership, they were joined by a large number of frontier Chinese and became known as Bei Han.

" Under pressure to proceed with the ABM program after it became clear that the Soviets had begun a similar project, McNamara finally agreed to a " light " system which he believed could protect against the far smaller number of Chinese missiles.

Under Jiang's leadership, the crackdown on Falun Gong became part of the Chinese political ethos of " upholding stability " – much the same rhetoric employed by the party during Tiananmen in 1989.

Under the terms of the Treaty of Nanjing, signed in 1843, Ningbo became one of the five Chinese treaty ports opened to virtually unrestricted foreign trade.

Under the strains and losses of the early campaigns of the Second Sino-Japanese War the Chinese decided in mid 1938 to standardize their Divisions as triangular divisions as part of their effort to simplify the command structure and placed them under Corps which became the basic tactical units.

Under the Mongols ' control, Jurchens were mainly divided in two groups and treated differently: the ones who were born and raised in North China and fluent in Chinese were considered as Chinese people ( Han ); but the people who were born and raised in Jurchen's homeland ( Manchuria ) without a Chinese-speaking abilities were treated as Mongols politically.

Under Hongwu's rule, the Mongol bureaucrats who dominated the government in the Yuan Dynasty's time were replaced by Han Chinese officials.