HIST 10800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Carpetbagger, Economic Regions Of Russia, River Corve
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Scholars wrote poetry in the style of the sung. New styles of painting developed, but the developments were from within the. Greatest yuan painting continued the style of the sung. Yuan historians wrote the official history of the dynasties that preceded it. Head of the court bureau of historiography was a mongol, but histories produced by his chinese staff were in the traditional mold. As dynasty waned, unemployed scholars wrote essays expressing loyalty toward the sung and satirizing the mongols. This was because they either could not read them, did not read them, or did not care about them: last years of the yuan. Yuan was the shortest of china"s major dynasties. Little more than a century elapsed between kk"s move to peking in 1264 and the. Rule of kk and his successor had been successful, but decline started in 14th century. By then, mongol empire as a whole no longer lent strength to its parts.
