Nomads No More

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