Kublai Khan

Kublai Khan (Mongolian: ᠬᠤᠪᠢᠯᠠᠢᠬᠠᠭᠠᠨ; Chinese: 忽必烈; 1215 – 1294) was the fifth ruler of the Mongol Empire and the first Emperor of the Yuan dynasty of China from 1260 to 1294. A grandson of Genghis Khan and brother to Ariq Boke, Möngke Khan and Hülegü Khan. Kublai Khan is the second most well known of the Mongolian rulers, Kublai Khan's empire stretched even further than that of Genghis Khan did. He was the first Mongol to rule over the whole of China, and his throne was located in what is now Beijing.
==Biography==
===Fighting for the throne===
On 11 August 1259, directly following the murder of his brother Möngke by the Assassin Zhang Zhi, Kublai's nephew, Asutai, made comment that there would soon be a power struggle for the throne and that the claimant Ariq Boke would be challenged by Kublai with support from his other brother Hülegü.Assassin's Creed: Last Descendants – Tomb of the Khan – Chapter 12
===Meeting the Polos===
In May 1275, Kublai Khan welcomed the Polo brothers, and Niccolò Polo's son Marco into his court, not knowing that the famed explorers were in fact Assassins. The Polos' alliance with the Khan and Marco's seventeen years of service gave the latter the opportunity to break into Kublai's vault in and steal back Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's Codex,Assassin's Creed: MemoriesAssassin's Creed: Initiates - Database: Retrieving the Codex which had been taken by the Mongols from the two elder Polos to whom Altaïr had entrusted it.Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade
==Gallery==
ACM Kublai Khan 2.png|Kublai Khan in mongol armor
ACM Kublai Khan 3.png|Kublai leading his men in battle
==Appearances==
*Assassin's Creed II 
*Assassin's Creed: Initiates 
*Assassin's Creed: Memories 
*Assassin's Creed: Last Descendants – Tomb of the Khan 
==References==
zh:孛儿只斤·忽必烈
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