Mongol Empire · TURNING POINT ·
Shangdu (Xanadu) (1256)
1256 — Khubilai builds a summer capital on the grass frontier between steppe and sown — the balancing point of his whole reign. Marco Polo will describe its gilded palace; Coleridge will dream it into English. From here Khubilai claims the khanate in 1260, by Chinese-style acclamation.
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- Mongol conquest of the Song dynasty (chapter 10 of Mongol Empire)
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- The Mongol Empire, 1206–1294
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