An outstanding strategist and statesman, he was known as Emperor Tai Zu, founding emperor of the Yuan Dynasty. The period from the late 12th to the early 13th centuries saw strengthened economic ...
Genghis Khan's grandson, Kublai Khan, defeated the Chinese Southern Song in 1279, and for the first time all of China was under foreign rule. In 1271 Kublai Khan named his dynasty Yuan which means ...