Kublai Khan
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Kublai Khan
Kublai Khan promoted the economic prosperity of his empire, rebuilding the Grand Canal, constructing highways, and repairing public granaries. He encouraged foreign commerce, tolerated all religions (except Taoism), and sponsored the arts and scholarship.
He maintained a splendid capital named Cambuluc (now known as Beijing).
Kublai Khan's empire was visited by the Italian traveler, Marco Polo.
Khubilai Khan: His Life and Times
Khubilai Khan: His Life and Times
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In this highly readable biography Rossabi confines himself to historical sources to provide a fascinating life of this great ruler. Although Khubilai acquired the title of Great Khan, the Mongol empire of the 1250s already had broken into four segments, with Khubilai ruling North China. His greatest success came when he was over 60 with the conquest of the southern Sung dynasty. In the last years of his life, however, he suffered from personal tragedies, obesity, alcoholism, and military reverses. Still, Khubilai ruled "the largest and most populous empire in the history of the world until that time."
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"When Kublai's khanate had reached the apogee of its power..., he extended this city [Beijing] as a residence, and built a four-walled city... [T]his city in a short time became a place of assembly resplendent and ornamented overall."
-- Wassaf, History (13th century; 1856 translation) on Kublai Khan
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In Xanadu
"In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree..."
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poem inspired by travelers' tales of the splendor of Kublai Khan and the Mongol Empire
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