Map of the Greater East region of the Yuan Empire

YUAN MAP

by Manny Mandizha

(This is a map of the east Yuan Empire. kids.britannica.com)
     

Here as you can see the Yuan empire’s (1279-1368) not only was spread over modern day China but it extended into western Europe. The Yuan or Mongols were famous for their amazing land conquests. These people woke up every day with the hope of someday owning the world.The “Asian Conquest” started somewhere in between modern day Turkey and Afghanistan. They took over small towns and cities, this lead them to big capital cities  and eventually entire nations, followed. Aside from good planning the Mongols were friendly and tolerant. Their conquests were rarely violent and few people died, if any at all. The Chinese conquest specifically was not mild, thousands of jiaozi ( an ancient Chinese monetary unit) were lost in property damage. The Southern Song ( the previous dynasty) was decimated and went extinct shortly after they were captured. There former territory growing from the tiny wisp of South China  to a massive land mass containing over 65 modern day countries. The taking over of the capital, Hangzhou was extremely rare in the fact the Mongols were hostile and imprisoned and willingly hurt people.Yet no matter what the emotional outtake of event, the Mongols ended up expanding there empire and writing history.