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Nomads No More
Kublai Khan & the Yuan Dynasty
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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
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Built a capital in
Beijing
Supported arts/luxury
First Mongolian
Ruler to live in China
Established Chinese prestige
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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
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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?
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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