Kublai Khan (Emperor Shizu of Yuan)
1215 CE–1294 CE · Mongolia (Mongol heartland)
Kublai Khan, a grandson of Genghis Khan, became Great Khan of the Mongols in 1260. He completed the conquest of Song China, proclaiming the Yuan dynasty in 1271 with its capital at Dadu (modern Beijing) and unifying the country by 1279. As Emperor Shizu he patronized trade, the arts, and diverse religions, and received foreign travelers such as Marco Polo. His two seaborne invasions of Japan failed, but his Yuan state joined China to the wider Mongol world.
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Mongolia (Mongol heartland)
What they did here
Kublai was born in Mongolia to Tolui and Sorghaghtani Beki, a grandson of Genghis Khan. The exact birthplace is not recorded.
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Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Kublai Khan (Emperor Shizu of Yuan)’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
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Rulers world
- Qalawun· 1222 CE–1290 CE
- Michael VIII Palaiologos· 1223 CE–1282 CE
- Ghiyas ud-Din Balban· –1287 CE
- Al-Ashraf Khalil· –1293 CE
- Baybars· 1223 CE–1277 CE
- Jalal ud-Din Firuz Khalji· –1296 CE
- Tran Thai Tong· 1218 CE–1277 CE
- Ramkhamhaeng the Great· –1298 CE
- Lajin· –1299 CE
- Louis IX of France· 1214 CE–1270 CE
- Alexander Nevsky· 1221 CE–1263 CE
- Hulagu Khan· 1217 CE–1265 CE
- Raden Wijaya· –1309 CE
- Möngke Khan· 1209 CE–1259 CE
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