The_Yuan_Empire

The Yuan Empire The Yuan Empire The ruler of the Mongols, Khubilai Khan, rejoined the Chinese territories, and changed the capital to Beijing, which was in Northern China. He named Beijing Dad, the Great Capital. Khubilai, had large mud walls built around Beijing. Beijing was located in the eastern part of the caravan routes, which looked over trade routes. In the 1220’s, the Mongols arrived in China, which was controlled by the Jurchens’ Jin Empire. The southern part of China, below the Yellow River was controlled by the Song. Each of the separate areas in China had their own languages and their own government. The Mongols used the ways of the Song to create their government. They counted the population, and required payment of taxes, like they had in the Middle East. The status of an individual, was based on racial ancestry, and occupations; the Mongols were first, then Central Asian, Middle Eastern, and last the Northern Chinese people. Though the Mongols had taken control of most of China, those in the south maintained their Confucian culture. They were isolated from the government, however, because of their beliefs and disagreements with government. The Mongols changed mongols, yuan, empire, government, china, people, chinese, ming, beijing, southeast, because, ways, trade, though, south, song, routes, part, own, northern, north, mongol, middle, khubilai, isolated, great, established, eastern, controlled, changed, central, capital, based, asia, zheng