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Kublai Khan & the Yuan Dynasty
Kublai Khan
Grandson of Temujin
Conquered China
Unified China
Economic trade
Toleration of culture
“Great Khan”
Yuan Dynasty
First time in 300 years
Opened foreign markets
Did not destroy
Built a capital in
Beijing
Supported arts/luxury
First Mongolian
Ruler to live in China
Established Chinese prestige
Rules of Ruling
Conqueror by horse…
Chinese leadership?
Works?
Connects Beijing -???
Internal trade
Govern by throne
Local, not high positions
Grand Canal/Highway
Hangzhou
Supply of grain/goods
East & West
• Mongolian peace with conquored areasPax Mongolica?
• Printing, gunpowder, paper money, compass, playing cardsChinese Inventions?
• Muslim world, India, EuropeInvited trade
• No other option, fear, no attachment to former states
Why did trade occur with Mongols?
Fall of the Yuan
• Expensive wars/military failures• Misrule of lower class• Famine, failing economies, flood, disease
What caused leadership in
Europe to fail?
• Infighting• Bad leadership• Corruption
Kublai Khan’s Death: 1294
• 1300’s began period of Chinese unrest• Other Mongolian empires also fell at around
this timeRebellion
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