Genghis Khan: Environmentalist, homophobe ( 07-09-06 )

Chinese researchers have republished Genghis Khan's code of laws, probably the world's first to ban homosexuality.

The Central Capital City (中都Zhongdu) of the Yuan Dynasty in Zhangjiakou（张家口）, Hebei（河北） Province. ( 06-10-11 )

With a surveyed area of 300,000 square meters in Hebei Province, the ancient capital city was constructed with one inside city enclosed by an intermediate city and another outer city. The excavation site covers an area of 1,430 square meters. During the excavation, a platform of the central palace of the inside city, a superb palace gateway and a corner terrace structure of a special shape were found, and a great amount of valuable building components and materials including stone, ceramics, ...

Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368) – III ( 06-10-09 )

The Dissolution of the Great KhanateIn the 1280s, there were many popular uprisings like the rebellions of Huang Hua 黄华 and Zhong Mingliang 钟明亮, which were small-scale rebellions against the high taxation. Such peasant uprisings were quite "normal" through all ages of Chinese history and occurred almost naturally through the Yuan period. Of much further consequence were the expansion wars to Japan and the south that imposed an enormous burden on the state treasury, and the wars ...

Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368) - I ( 06-10-09 )

Beginning of Yuan DynastyIt was against their typical manner of functioning for the Mongols to erect a Khanate on a vast territory in the scarcely populated areas of Inner Asia, Persia or Southern Russia, or to control a densely populated empire with a highly sophisticated administration and culture. Immediately after being named ruler of the region of the former Jin empire, Khubilai invited Khitan, Jurchen and Chinese scholar officials to advise him how to govern his realm: Liu Binzhong 刘秉忠, ...

Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368) – II ( 06-10-09 )

The territory of the Yuan DynastyThe war with Ariq-Böke: But Khubilai was not safe yet on the throne of the Mongol empire. Ariq-Böke had proclaimed himself Great Khan and was supported by the Mongol troops standing in China's western regions (modern Gansu, Shaanxi and Sichuan). To safeguard his title and empire, Khubilai fielded his troops himself to engage in a protracted war among brothers. Most campaigns and battles took place far in the west and destroyed the territory and economic base of ...

Ancient brewery plant of the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) in Jiangxi（江西） Province ( 06-10-08 )

Jining（集宁） City Ruins, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. ( 06-10-08 )

Storehouse relics of the Yuan Dynasty in Ningbo（宁波） City of Zhejiang（浙江） Province ( 06-10-08 )

Khubilai becomes Great Khan ( 06-09-22 )

The dissolution of the Great Khanate ( 06-09-22 )

The war with Ariq-Böke ( 06-09-22 )

Governing China and the Chinese ( 06-09-22 )

Khubilai’s Plan of Governing China ( 06-09-22 )

Overseas expansion ( 06-09-22 )

The conquest of Southern Song ( 06-09-22 )

The Northern Yuan ( 06-09-22 )

Guo Shoujing Measures the"Heaven" ( 06-08-25 )

Gheghis Khan (1160 AD - 1227 AD) ( 06-08-11 )

Mongol Rule over China I ( 06-08-11 )

Mongol Rule over China II ( 06-08-11 )