What exactly was the relationship between the Mongol Empire and the Yuan Dynasty?

The Mongol Empire was supposed to include the four khanates, that is, empires formed by the alliance of four different khanates. Just like the Soviet Union, it was just a political association, and in the process of development the economy and the military were independent of each other, and all four countries developed independently. It's just an alliance militarily and politically.

The Yuan Dynasty was one of the four khanates, and the founder of the Yuan Dynasty was Genghis Khan. At that time, the Central Plains of the Great Song Dynasty, and at the same time the Jin Kingdom. It can be said that during the Song Dynasty, ethnic minorities developed very rapidly, and there were many ethnic minority countries that confronted the Great Song Dynasty.

However, in the process of slow development, Kublai Khan, the grandson of Genghis Khan, not only defeated various ethnic minorities, but also defeated the Southern Song Dynasty and completed the great cause of unification. As a result, it has also achieved the largest historical territory of our country, which has never been seen before or since.

The Mongol Empire is believed to have been founded by Genghis Khan, and according to historical records, the territory of the Mongol Empire was up to 4,500 square kilometers. After Genghis Khan's death, several of Genghis Khan's sons and grandchildren ruled the four khanates.

It's just that Kublai Khan completed the unification of the Central Plains and established the Yuan Dynasty. In the less than 100-year history of the unification of the Yuan Dynasty, these four khanates still maintained particularly friendly ties with each other. When the Yuan Dynasty fell.

Many of the Yuan dynasty's aristocratic ruling class turned to several other khanates.

<> Er'er Jin Temujin, Khan of the Mongol Empire, was honored with the honorific title "Genghis Khan", which means "possessing the four directions of the sea". An outstanding statesman and military strategist in the history of the world. He was born in 1162 in the upper reaches of the Nan River in the Mobei steppe (present-day Kent Province, Mongolia), and was named Temujin.

In the spring of 1206, the Great Mongolian State was established, and since then, it has launched many wars of foreign conquest, conquering the Black Sea coast in Central Asia and Eastern Europe.

Bihan posthumously crowned Temujin as the ancestor of the Yuan, called the Shengwu Emperor, and changed the name of the Great Mongolian State to the Yuan, and the two most controversial dynasties in Chinese history were the Qing Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty.

Among the most powerful ethnic groups in early Asia, the Yuan Mongols were the first. "During the Yuan Dynasty, almost all of Europe was occupied by the Yuan Dynasty, which was far more powerful than the period when China was at its strongest." Some books say so, but the Yuan Dynasty was not the Mongol Empire, the Mongol Empire, the largest country in human history, not the Roman Empire, not the British Empire, not the Russian Empire, but the Mongol Empire, a Mongolian hero, the Mongol Empire established by Genghis Khan.

The Mongol Empire and the Yuan Dynasty are two concepts that are easily confused by many people, and are both related and distinct. The Yuan Dynasty was a territory of China, excluding the other four khanates of the Mongol Empire.

The Mongols conquered the Uighurs of Gaochang and the Western Liao, opening the gateway to Central Asia and Europe. This was followed by three large-scale Mongol expeditions to the west. The three western conquests laid the bulk of this world empire, encompassing what is now Russia and most of Europe, the eastern shores of the Mediterranean, the two river basins, Persia, and northwestern India.

On the map of these empires, Genghis Khan's sons and grandchildren ruled over the four khanates. Although the early four khanates were "princes" attached to the Mongol Great Khan, they were later mere conquests of military conquests, each developing into several separate states. The Yuan Dynasty was a minority regime established by the Mongols after conquering the Central Plains and defeating the Southern Song Dynasty.

Kublai Khan, the first emperor of the Yuan dynasty, was also the successor of the Great Khan of the Mongols and maintained largely friendly relations with the aforementioned khanate.