As Kublai Khan captured more and more of the Song lands, he declared his reign to be a new dynasty for China. In 1271 Kublai established himself as emperor of the Yuan, meaning “Great Origin.” ...

One was Kublai Khan. In the 13th Century ... the next foreign dynasty which again brought China new territory and ideas. The very last emperor of all loved bicycles, by the way.

Although Kublai Khan tried to rule as a sage emperor, the Mongols did not adjust to Chinese ways. Ideologically and culturally the Mongols resisted assimilation and legally tried to stay isolated from ...

In Emperor of the Seas: Kublai Khan and the Making of China, Weatherford continues in his own decades-long quest to rescue the Mongols from their reputation as uncivilised marauders, giving us a ...

The 300-year-old Song Dynasty was on the verge of collapse and Kublai was about to become the first non-Chinese emperor of China. But even as the khan was trying to take China, his own people were ...

Görgüz was a powerful and influential ruler, whose first wife was the granddaughter of Kublai Khan and the second daughter of Timur (Chinese emperor, 1294–1307). Church of the East During the ...

OK, so we're all watching Marco Polo solely because of the Chinese characters ... out of land to conquer. So Kublai has a lot to live up to, emperor wise. The Khan's leadership had become even ...

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Jonathan Clements’s The Emperor’s Feast: A History of China in 12 Meals takes us from modern Chinatowns back to Kublai Khan's rages The Mongol emperor Kublai Khan’s terrifying reputation ...