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After conquering the Song Dynasty and building a new capital in Dadu, modern day Beijing Kublai declares the beginning of the Yuan.
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When Kublai Khan issues paper currency he is the first ever to do so.
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Sending several hundred ships to invade, a storm took out many ships and Japanese pirates and samurai take out the rest.
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The famous merchant and explorer lived in China and served as one of Khan's court members for 17 years.
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The loyalists flee from Hangzhou. Kublai works to build schools, economic growth and reducing the control of the regional governors.
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At the age of 9 the emperor dies when the Mongols defeat the Song at the battle of Yamen. This conquest unites both north and south China for the first time in 300 years.
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Sending a giant fleet of ships but they cannot get passed the wall that the Japanese have built and a typhoon takes out the rest of the fleet.
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Unable to rule efficiently the next few successors become corrupt.
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Personal struggles and strife are what is rumored to have killed the great ruler.
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Buyantu Khan reintroduces exams for imperial officials in attempt to stop the corruption in the Yuan Empire.
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Millions are killed by the Bubonic plague creating instability within the empire.
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When the Yellow river shifted it flooded a densely populated region in the center of the empire
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Attempting to curtail inflation to no avail.
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This rebellion was started because they believed that it was the poor rule of the Yuan empire that had caused the natural disasters because they thought they had lost mandate from heaven.
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His campaigns called for the restoration of Han power in China.
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The Emperor flees to the north where the dynasty continues but he loses most of the empire. The dynasty then retreats to Mongolia. Zhu begins the Ming Dynasty.