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Turning point · The Mongol Empire, 1206–1294
Goryeo comes to terms
1259 — After six invasions and thirty years, with the court holed up on Kanghwa island while the peninsula burned, the crown prince travels to the Mongol court. Goryeo keeps its king and loses its independence — vassal, in-law and, soon, unwilling shipyard for the Japan expeditions.
This is one scene of Chapter 7 — The Machinery of Empire in The Mongol Empire, 1206–1294.
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