Can someone describe the mongol rule of china during the yuan dynasty?
Mafia Girl’s link leads you to an article of China,not the Yuan dynasty.Here’s what little I know of the Yuan dynasty. The best-known ruler of the Yüan, or Mongol, Dynasty was Kublai Khan. In literature Chinese drama came to the fore for the first time, and vernacular fiction was firmly established.The Mongols were the first of the northern barbarians to rule all of China. After creating an empire that stretched across the Eurasian continent and occupying northern China and Korea in the first half of the 13th century, the Mongols continued their assault on the Southern Sung. By 1276 the Southern Sung capital of Hangzhou had fallen, and in 1279 the last of the Sung loyalists perished. Before this, Kublai Khan, the fifth “great khan” and grandson of Genghis Khan, had moved the Mongol capital from Karakorum to Peking. In 1271 he declared himself emperor of China and named the dynasty Yüan, meaning “beginning,” to signify that this was the beginning of a long era of Mongol rule. In Asia, K
