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To: truedog who wrote (1875)7/26/1999 8:48:00 AM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
I had to look it up. Genghiz Khan conquered northern China (Chin empire) in 1215. His grandson, Kublai, conquered southern China (Sung empire) in 1279. It was Kublai that attempted unsuccessfully to invade Japan. Kublai took the name Yuan for the dynasty he founded. The Yuan dynasty was overthrown in 1368 and replaced by the Ming dynasty, a native Chinese dynasty.

Regarding the Chinese and Mongols, I found some interesting information in The Volume Library - a little two volume encyclopedia we bought for the kids some years back (of course, they've pretty much ignored it).

From The Volume Library:

"High Chinese officials were replaced with Mongols, who held themselves to one set of laws while holding the Chinese to another, harsher set. Suffering reached mammoth proportions - estimates are that the Chinese population dropped from 100 million to 70 million under the Mongols."

So it wouldn't seem very accurate to identify the Chinese and the Mongols too closely with one another.

Bruce
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