An outstanding strategist and statesman, he was known as Emperor Tai Zu, founding emperor of the Yuan Dynasty. The period from the late 12th to the early 13th centuries saw strengthened economic ...

This refers to the military forces of Genko, two military campaigns launched against Japan by the Mongol Empire (Yuan Dynasty ... kingdom of Goguryeo. The soldiers were forced to fight in a ...

At that time more than one million civilians and soldiers toiled for three years ... Mongol rulers of the Yuan Dynasty destroyed the Jin capital. The sumptuous palaces were set ablaze, the fires ...