The Church of the East was already present among various Mongol tribes when Kublai Khan (1260–1294) conquered China. Though ...

The names of foreign places can be filled with an inexplicable magic, as all travellers know, even in an age when this magic ...

Jack Weatherford: What Kublai Khan lacked in ... the imperial summer capital in northern China. But for historians, he was the grandson of nomadic Genghis Khan, whose feared archers on horseback ...

The loot of conquest was lavished on his great ... In the 13th Century, in Mongol-ruled China under the descendants of Kublai Khan, Tamil merchants ran successful businesses in the port of ...

The empire reached its greatest extent in 1279 when Kublai Khan completed the conquest of China. By that time the Mongols' famously efficient messenger-riders, who could supposedly cover around 200 ...

The loot of conquest was lavished on his great imperial temple ... In the 13th Century, in Mongol-ruled China under the descendants of Kublai Khan, Tamil merchants ran successful businesses in the ...

Alas, when Kublai Khan moved the capital to Xanadu in 1260, Karakorum had had its day. Its decline was sealed by the invading troops of China’s ... of defeat; the conquest and looting of the ...

The head of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command warns about Beijing’s plans.

China supported Russia's incursion into Ukraine since the beginning of the war, although the extent of the involvement was never blatant.