HIST 80a Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Genghis Khan, Naval Warfare, Kublai Khan
8 Dec 2016
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China under mongol rule (1215 1368) pages 198 210. The mongol conquest of the jin and xia dynasties. The mongols were the first non-chinese group to conquer all of china. North china, then under the jurchen jin dynasty, was just south of the region of. Mongolia where chinggis khan rose to power, and it was one of his first targets. Jin lost territory in stages and by 1234 had been fully destroyed. The mongols went on to seize sichuan, but did not strike at the heart of the song empire until khubilai became khan in 1260. Naval warfare was a large part of the final assault on the song because control of the. Many chinese officials saw the mongols as the greatest threat to chinese civilization in history and took up arms to show their loyalty to song. Ordinary people were sometimes enslaved, and many occupations were made hereditary.
