Saturday 14 July 2012

What was Khubilai Khan's legacy? My text for this is Traditions & Encounters by Bentley and Ziegler.

In your
text, the authors do not simply come out and say the legacy of Khubilai Khan was€¦  Instead,
we have to infer what sort of legacy we can attribute to him.  In order to do that, we must look
at what Khubilai did while he was in power.

Khubilai was just one of the
Mongol rulers who ruled various empires that had been created out of what Genghis Khan had
conquered.  Khubilai was the ruler of the easternmost of these empires.  Under Khubilai, the
Mongol rule over China was consolidated.  He came to dominate China and its surroundings in a
way that had not previously been accomplished.  

Khubilai allowed the
Mongols to rule all of...

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