HIS284H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sinicization, Pax Mongolica, Bureaucrat
Document Summary
1211 brings troops over great wall, inner mongolio to captial city seized in 1215. Grandson kublai khan defeats southern sung dynasty 1279, first time we have external, foreign rule. Names the dynsaty un (origin of the universe) Association with creation, global intentions giving themselves legitimacy. Adapts to chinese governance, portrays himself like the chinese. Respectable, territorially massive, unique and independent culture, centralization. Monogols held certain vslues like culture, women didn"t bind their feet, mongol women were declining in status- gesture of distance. 1279, high point for kublai khan, established as a great warrior, gossip in his court. Buddhism and daoism hold through the un take over. Concerned with fair laws, legal codes, bribing people but not a legalist using corruption or force. Wants to be more than a chinese beaurocrat. Sends 25,000 men mongol invasions of japan, defeated by bad weather, tries again. 1281, sends huge fleet of 140,000 recruits koreans for invasion.
