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Wrath of the Khans
KUBLAI KHAN
Mongolian, 1215-1294
The fifth Great Khan
Brief of the Mongol Empire,
Kublai reformed
Bio the entire state and
became the first non-
Chinese ruler to conqueror the
entirety of China, establishing
the ruling Yuan Dynasty that
lasted until 1368. He is best
remembered through the
writings of Marco Polo and
Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s
romantic poem Xanadu.
The emperor Kublai Khan ruled over a vast territory of
land and received many visitors to his court
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