Charles R. Bawden
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Emeritus Professor of Mongolian, University of London. Author of The Modern History of Mongolia.
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Kublai Khan was a Mongolian general and statesman, who was the grandson and greatest successor of Genghis Khan. As the fifth emperor (reigned 1260–94) of the Yuan, or Mongol, dynasty (1206–1368), he completed the conquest of China (1279) started by Genghis Khan in 1211 and thus became the first…
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