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In power from to A. Beginning of the In , in what became known as the Boxer Rebellion or the Boxer Uprising , a Chinese secret organization called the Society of the Righteous and Harmonious Fists led an uprising in northern China against the spread of Western and Japanese influence there. The rebels, referred Live TV. This Day In History. History Vault. Early Rule When Kublai was 17 years old, his father died.
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Genghis Khan Mongol leader Genghis Khan rose from humble beginnings to establish the largest land empire in history. Yet he could not have done so without adopting Chinese customs, thus alienating Mongol aristocrats who regarded the Chinese as inferior. This tension between the Mongol elite and its subject peoples— especially the Chinese—played a major role in destabilizing Mongol rule.
Although at his death Kublai would leave an empire that was relatively stable and prosperous, it would survive him by less than a century.
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Some khanates were more closely linked to centralized Mongol policies than others, depending on their location, who oversaw them, and the amount of resistance in each region. It should also be noted that the vast religious and cultural traditions of these khanates, including Islam, Judaism, Taoism, Orthodoxy, and Buddhism, were often at odds with the khanate rulers and their demands.
He was possibly a victim of cholera or dysentery, however there is no confirmed record of the cause of his death. His son Asutai conducted him back to Mongolia to be buried.
Kublai Khan came to power in By he had renamed the Empire the Yuan Dynasty and conquered the Song dynasty and with it, all of China. However, Chinese forces ultimately overthrew the Mongols to form the Ming Dynasty.
His greatest obstacle was the powerful Song dynasty in the south. He stabilized the northern regions by placing a hostage puppet leader in Korea named Wonjong in This new powerful position allowed Kublai to oversee uprisings and wars between the western khanates and assist rulers often family members to oversee these regions. However, his tenuous hold in the east occupied most of his resources. In , as he continued to consolidate his power over the vast and varying Chinese subjects and outlying regions, Kublai Khan renamed his khanate the Yuan Dynasty.
His newly named dynasty appeared to be successful after the fall of the major southern center Xiangyang in to Mongol forces after five years of struggle. The final piece of the puzzle for Kublai was the conquest of the Song Dynasty in southern China. He finally garnered this sought-after southern region in and the last Song emperor died in after years of costly battles.
With this success, the Mongols became the first non-Chinese people to conquer all of the Chinese territories. Kublai moved his headquarters to Dadu, what later became the modern city of Beijing. His establishment of a capital there was a controversial move to many Mongols who accused him of being too closely tied to Chinese culture. However, the Yuan Dynasty often functioned as an independent khanate from the rest of the western Mongol-dominated regions.
Yuan Dynasty circa The sheer scale of this khanate required extensive military support and often strained the Mongol treasury in order to keep populations under its influence.
Although the invasions of Burma in , , and forced the population to eventually capitulate, they were never more than a vassal state. Raised in the nomadic traditions of the Mongolian steppes by his father, Tolui, and mother, Sorghaghtani Beki, Kublai was taught the art of warfare from a young age and, while still a boy, became a skilled fighter, hunter and horseman.
In addition, he was exposed to Chinese culture and philosophy, for which he developed an affinity that would stay with him and inform many of his decisions later in life. He placed Kublai in charge of northern China while he set out to conquer their enemies to the south. In deference to the learning and customs of the population under his control, Kublai surrounded himself with Chinese advisers and established a new northern capital called Shangdu.
No mere bureaucrat, Kublai also helped his brother expand the empire with successful military campaigns of his own. However, he would distinguish himself from his forebears with the restraint with which he dealt with conquered peoples. However, Kublai would have all of his supporters executed, securing his place as the new Great Khan of the Mongolian Empire.
Once more exhibiting his respect for Chinese culture, and eschewing the custom of his predecessors to rule with an iron fist, Kublai Khan moved the capital of the empire from Karakorum to Dadu, in what is now modern-day Beijing, and ruled through an administrative structure more in keeping with local tradition. He also introduced a new social structure that divided the population into four classes: The Mongolian aristocracy and a foreign merchant class were both exempt from taxation and enjoyed special privileges, while the northern and southern Chinese bore most of the empire's economic burden and were compelled to do much of the manual labor.
For his relatively benevolent reign, Kublai would eventually earn himself the nickname Wise Khan.
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