Arts of the Yuan Dynasty

The Yuan Dynasty was founded by a Mongolian tribe that once lived along the Argun River. In the late twelfth century AD, a fierce warrior named Temüjin emerged from within this tribe, and by the early thirteenth century AD, he had unified the Mongolian clans north of the Gobi Desert. Temujin later became Genghis Khan of these clans who built the Mongolian Empire based in Helin/Karakorum. Shortly afterwards, Genghis Khan launched massive military campaigns to the west and the south, annexed huge swathes of territories, and eventually built the Mongolian empire into a juggernaut that flaunted its military might throughout Eurasia.