At the beginning of the 13th century, infamous leader Genghis Khan united the Mongols under a common goal — invading the ...

An outstanding strategist and statesman, he was known as Emperor Tai Zu, founding emperor of the Yuan Dynasty. The period from the late 12th to the early 13th centuries saw strengthened economic ...

one of the most important painters of the Yuan dynasty (1271-1368)—“this can hardly be his.” And in 1958, curator James F. Cahill concurred, writing that while the painting was “closely ...

The Society for Song, Yuan, and Conquest Dynasty Studies is an international society committed to the encouragement of the study of Chinese—as well as Jürchen, Khitan, Tangut, and Mongol—history, ...

The land fell to the Mongols in an era that would later be named the Yuan Dynasty, and the conquerors established centralized bureaucracy, trade, taxation and a capital. In 2024, archaeologists ...