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In the 1230's the Monguls became the rulers of Northen China. At that time, the Mongul leader Kublai Khan changed his name into the Chinese name, Yuan.
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The Phags-pa scipt was made in 1269 in order combine the writing of the Monguls and the Chinese. The writing language could be able to create a system for the Monguls and the Chinese to comunicate. Now the Monguls can make laws for the Chinese people.
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Kublai Khan changed chinese currecny into something lighter, paper money. Paper money was used by the Sung dynasty, but the Yuan made the currency official. The paper money was easy to carry, and people would know better the worth of the onaey
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The Monguls in the Yuan Dynasty tried to invade Japan, but with no such luck. A storm came in as the invasion started, and then Japanese pirates jumped on the Mongul ships and killed the men.
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The Sung dynasty was diminished in 1279 by the Monguls. That was the point in Chinese tradition when the emperor of China was not chinese, Kublai Khan - now known as Yuan- was the first non- chinese ruler.
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Kublai Khan set out again to invade the Japanese, but again no such luck. The Japanese made a fortriess to guard them from the Monguls. Another strom went again upon the Monguls and they lost.
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Emperor Yingzong tried to make sure the uprisings would stop by passing out the law of the New Deal, though it did not work. China was falling apart at that time, and to the Chinese, the Mandate of heaven was taken away from the Yuan Dynasty.
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In the 1330's death and destruction occured. There were floods, diasters occuring in China. The peaseants soon rebelled against the Yuan dynasty. The Yuan dynasty seemed to have lost the Mandate of Heaven. This was what the Chinese needed to think that the Mandate of Heaven was lost.
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This is one of the uprisings the Chinese had. These people rebelled against the Yuan dynasty, they OF COURSE thought the Mandate of Heaven was gone.
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The new dynasty started, the Ming Dynasty.
