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The Mongol Empire fragments
After 1260 Chinggis Khan's grandsons fought each other, and the empire split into four khanates. Each took on the ways of the people it ruled: three turned to Islam, while in China Kublai Khan founded the Yuan dynasty. This topic follows the four successor states and asks what the so-called Mongol peace really meant.
In this topic
- Civil war and four khanates
- Worked example: why did the empire fragment?
- The Il-Khanate in Iran
- Why Mongol rulers turned to Islam
- The Golden Horde and the Rus
- Kublai conquers the Song
- Ruling Yuan China
- Worked example: did Marco Polo go to China?
- Overreach and the fall of the Yuan
- A Mongol peace?
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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