HIST110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Song Dynasty, Datu, Kublai Khan
3 Mar 2015
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Exam terms and instructions are on moodle (a few of them are from the textbook) Comes back to deal with sung after failure with japan. Byan (genghis" top commander), leads war against sung. Advanced into hangzhou, surrendered, needed to mistake in the campaign, killed everyone in a nearby sung town. 1278 final act of resistance from the sung, the emperors of the sung dynasty is all gone. Kublai like the chinese way of the dynasties created the yuan dynasty. Pretty much just took over what was already there in china, and acts like the other chinese emperors. Extend grand canal, took 3 years, linked hangzhou with the north. Marco polo (merchant family in venice), one of the first ones in china due to the security the. Mongols created, amazed by the size and extravagant of china. Debate whether or not he actually been in china, or sat in kabol and listened to stories by other people.
