Kublai Khan’s Mongol Navy

Ships helped Mongol armies conquer 13th-century China. Beginning in A.D. 1206, Genghis Khan’s Mongol military forces burst out of the central Asian steppes and over the next century conquered the largest contiguous land empire in history. The image these Mongol  conquests invariably evoke is one of fierce horsemen superbly executing mounted combat to sweep all …

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