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Why were the Manchu able to take power away from the Ming?

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Answer:

The Ming empire was already on the verge of collapsing

Step-by-step explanation:

Wan Li ran the empire into the ground during the second half of his reign. many high ranking ming generals betrayed the empire such as Wu Sangui, this weakened the already small military power of the empire which had lost most of its numbers because of peasent reblleion.

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