Peerless hero Genghis Khan (Temujin, 1162-1227) was born of the Mongol tribes. An outstanding strategist and statesman, he was known as Emperor Tai Zu, founding emperor of the Yuan Dynasty. The ...

The Mongols in the succeeding Yuan Dynasty (ca. 1271-1368) went on to build even more ships on a grand scale, and during his stay at the imperial court from 1275 to 1292, Marco Polo described four ...

The Ming Dynasty was founded by Zhu Yuanzhang (reigned 1368–1398), a cowherd from a ... uprising that toppled the Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty (1271–1368). During the Ming Dynasty, China ...

960-1270). But it was the subsequent Mongol emperors (the Yuan dynasty of c. 1271-1368) who commissioned the first imperial treasure fleets and founded trading posts in Sumatra, Ceylon ...

When the Mongols conquered China and founded the Yuan Dynasty (A.D. 1271–1368), they established an ambitious silver mining operation near Lake Erhai in Yunnan Province. Production grew rapidly ...

Serving as a vital hub for exchange in the Song (AD 960-1279) and Yuan (AD 1271-1368) dynasties, the coastal city is home to 22 historic sites and monuments which have been recognized within this ...

According to Wang Minsong, a member of Zhenjiang's cultural heritage protection expert group, the preservation of historical ...

The dynasty began in 1271 and lasted until 1368, when the empire's lands were beleaguered by natural disasters, ...

In 1271 Kublai Khan named his dynasty Yuan which means "origin of the universe." The Yuan dynasty in China lasted from 1279 to 1368. Kublai Khan followed a tentative policy of Sinicization, that is, ...

Using a hotpot to make instant – boiled mutton is believed to date back to Kublai, the founding emperor of the Yuan Dynasty (1271 - 1368). The story goes like this: Mongolian soldiers used to ...

The white-glazed porcelain shards including those of bowls, plates, dishes, vases, pots and stem-cups were retrieved from the ...