The Yuan dynasty ruled China from 1271 to 1368, proclaimed by Kublai Khan of the Borjigin clan, who took the imperial name Emperor Shizu and governed from the primary capital of Dadu, on the site of modern Beijing, with Shangdu serving as a summer capital. As the successor state to the Mongol Empire after its division among Genghis Khan's descendants, the Yuan completed its conquest of China by defeating the Southern Song dynasty at the Battle of Yamen in 1279, becoming the first dynasty founded by a non-Han people to rule all of China proper under the traditional Mandate of Heaven that Kublai Khan proclaimed in 1271. Yuan rule ended in 1368 after military defeat by the rising Ming dynasty, when the Genghisid rulers retreated to the Mongolian Plateau and continued for a time as the Northern Yuan, which lasted until 1635.
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Government TypeKhagan-ruled imperial dynasty, successor state to the Mongol Empire 1 Government type (class) Classification
Status (Extant or Former) FAQs
Did Mongol rule end when the Ming defeated the Yuan dynasty in 1368?
The Genghisid rulers kept ruling from the Mongolian Plateau until 1635.
Not entirely. After the Ming dynasty defeated the Yuan forces in 1368, the Genghisid rulers retreated to the Mongolian Plateau and continued to rule there until 1635, when they surrendered to the later Jin dynasty.
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The Yuan dynasty was established by Kublai Khan as the Mongol Empire's own khagan-ruled successor state after the empire's division.
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The Southern Song was conquered by the Yuan in 1279.
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Succeeded By
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WikipediaIntroduction
It was established by Kublai (Emperor Shizu or Setsen Khan), the fifth khagan-emperor of the Mongol Empire from the Borjigin clan, and lasted from 1271 to 1368 CE.
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Status: Khagan-ruled division of the Mongol Empire after its division. Conquest dynasty of Imperial China
Yuan dynasty: Status
In 1368, following the defeat of the Yuan forces by the Ming dynasty, the Genghisid rulers retreated to the Mongolian Plateau and continued to rule until 1635 when they surrendered to the Later Jin dynasty (which later evolved into the Qing dynasty); this rump state is known in Chinese history as the Northern Yuan. After the division of the Mongol Empire, the Yuan dynasty was the khanate ruled by the successors of Möngke.
- Preceded By: The Song Dynasty
- Preceded By: The Mongol Empire
In Era: The Post-Classical and Medieval Period, lead paragraph and infobox, existence dates
The Yuan dynasty, officially the Great Yuan, was a Mongol-led imperial dynasty of China and a successor state to the Mongol Empire after its division.
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