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My Host Family

 My Host Family

The family I visited lived in Mongolia. They were merchants.  This means that our life was at constant change and always interesting.  The family worked on trading many different kinds of goods to people like hats, jewelry and clothing.  For fun we would tell stories and folktales to each other.  They prayed to many gods and goddesses but they were most familiar with Buddihism.  We ate tsagain-ide (white food).  The government had many rules including a social class system that was unfair to the chines.  It was first Mongols, then foreigners, then Northern Chinese, then Southern Chinese. our clothes were  dels and boots, dels are basically a dress that was tied at the waist, the men had a choice to were there dels long or short, women always had to wear them long. at the beginning of the day business would be slow and we would see maybe 2 or 3 customers. in the middle of the day it would be my shift to work the cashier, the only bad thing about working the cashier is that i would have to stand there for 4 hours tell my lunch break, by then my legs would feel like noodles. at the end of the day my host family would prepare dinner, and count there profit, when my host family came alittle short with there profit we would reopen the shop to make more money, seeing how it was at night and there would be maybe 1 or 2 people every Hour i could tell it would be a long night tell closing time.

Interview with Kublai khan

Q. What impact did you make on china?

A. I was a successful ruler, many of the emperors before me were land hungry and showed no feeling or interest towards their subjects, I challenged the stereotypes of Mongolia by providing the foundation of a grand emperor; I would have control of Mongol government and china.

Q. How did you feel about your subject’s religious beliefs?

A. I showed tolerance towards the religions of my new subjects, because of my leniency towards freedom of religious beliefs I had created a relationship between my people and me. 

Q. How did you feel about trade with foreign countries?

A. I was a great supporter of trade, science, and fine arts.  My advisor/ friend, Marco Polo had come to China with new ideas.  Then he went back to the West and talked about China.  People were fascinated and came here to trade.

Q. How did your nomadic lifestyle change during your rule of China?

A.  When I took over China it was a hard adjustment.  I am now in a palace and only come out on rare occasions.   I see myself leaving less and less due to health issues.   I miss hunting with my kinsmen.

Q:  How do you run your government?

A.I chose Mongols and those that were foreigners to rule rather then my most trusted Chinese subjects.  In doing so, revolts broke out throughout China because they wanted government positions.

Map of The Yuan Dynasty

            The Yuan dynasty (1280-1365) borders were a little bigger then today’s present day Chinas, as u see on the map of the Yuan Dynasty had conquered most of Mongolia and present day china hasn’t. Genghis Khan was the founder of Mongolia and died fighting of Chinese defenses, Genghis Khans eldest son Tule had a Son named Kublai Khan, when Kublai was seventeen his father Tule sacrificed himself to save his brother Monke Khan, Kublai was the next air for the throne, Kublai was great at war tactics and had conquered almost more land then all the previous dynasties Combined. The Yuan Dynasty especially controlled more land from the north, including parts from modern day Mongolia, compared to other dynasties that had almost no control over the Northern territory, the Yuan Dynasty bordered more then Mongolia and a little of the soviet union from the North, in the east he conquered all of china, in the south he bordered a little over Myanmar and a lot of India, and about half of Afghanistan and Pakistan, from the west he controlled almost nothing besides some parts of china.