Kublai Khan
Kublai Khan was the Mongol emperor who founded China's Yuan dynasty in the 13th century, grandson of Genghis Khan.
He completed the Mongol conquest of China and ruled the largest contiguous land empire in history.
Marco Polo's accounts of his court introduced him to European imagination, and Coleridge's poem "Kubla Khan" cemented his name as a symbol of exotic splendor and power.
China's seat of government
- ChinaEast Asian superpower
- paper moneyCurrency in bill form
- Grand CanalFamous historic waterway
- administrationOrganizational oversight and control
reforms · civil service · taxation · legal code · Confucian · bureaucracy · census · provincial
Medieval Venetian who reached China
- Silk RoadHistoric transcontinental trade network
- tradeExchange of commodities
- cultural exchangeSharing practices between peoples
- ColeridgeEnglish Romantic verse-maker
Xanadu · diplomacy · emissary · Buddhist · religious tolerance
Mongol emperor's name
- steppeTreeless Eurasian grassland
- nomadHomeless wanderer by choice
- yurtFelt-covered nomad tent
- gerPortable nomadic tent
horde · shamanism · equestrian · archery · falconry · Turkic · Uighur · Pax Mongolica
Ceremonial chair for sovereigns
- reignSovereign's time in power
- courtTrial venue or sports surface
- palaceMonarch's official residence
- empireDomain under unified control
sovereign · coronation · decree · tribute · audience · legitimacy · mandate · succession
Increase in scope
- siegeEncirclement forcing surrender
- campaignOrganized effort toward goal
- subjugationForcing into submission
- invasionForcible entry into territory
cavalry · infantry · strategist · battlefield · territory · annexation · Korea · Burma
Beijing
China's seat of government
- ChinaEast Asian superpower
- paper moneyCurrency in bill form
- Grand CanalFamous historic waterway
administration · reforms · civil service · taxation · legal code · Confucian · bureaucracy · census · provincial · Xanadu
Marco Polo
Medieval Venetian who reached China
- Silk RoadHistoric transcontinental trade network
- tradeExchange of commodities
- cultural exchangeSharing practices between peoples
Coleridge · Xanadu · diplomacy · emissary · Buddhist · religious tolerance
Genghis
Mongol emperor's name
ger · horde · shamanism · equestrian · archery · falconry · Turkic · Uighur · Pax Mongolica · khanate
throne
Ceremonial chair for sovereigns
empire · sovereign · coronation · decree · tribute · audience · legitimacy · mandate · succession
expansion
Increase in scope
- siegeEncirclement forcing surrender
- campaignOrganized effort toward goal
- subjugationForcing into submission
invasion · cavalry · infantry · strategist · battlefield · territory · annexation · Korea · Burma · Java
- Chinese RulersKangxi
- Yuan Figures
- MonarchsAugustus, Charlemagne, Constantine, Elizabeth I, Henry VIII
- Asian historyancient China, China, empresses, shoguns, Chinese civilization
- Ancient AsiaTang Dynasty, Ming Dynasty, Confucius, Great Wall, ancient China
- Ancient RulersNebuchadnezzar, Hammurabi, Cyrus the Great, Ramesses II, Ramesses
Kublai KhanTokugawa Ieyasu