Yuán

The Yuan was a Mongol-led dynasty of China, ruled from Dadu, now Beijing. Kublai Khan proclaimed the Great Yuan in 1271, and his forces completed the conquest of the Southern Song at Yamen in 1279.

In 1368 Ming armies captured Dadu and drove Toghon Temür and his court onto the Mongolian Plateau. The Northern Yuan survived there; in the late fifteenth century Dayan Khan and Mandukhai reunited most Mongol tribes. Its rulers submitted to the Later Jin in 1635.