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Submitted in partial fulfillment of the degree Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Abstract: The ancient Yuan Dynasty in China was an era that witnessed a small tribal group's rise from obscurity in the steppes of Mongolia and the build up of the largest trans-continental empire at that time. Some even argue that the acceleration of economic and cultural ... read moreexchanges between Europe and Asia during the Yuan Dynasty sparked the rush of global exploration efforts by various European nations, resulting in subsequent establishment of many global empires by Western colonizers. Thus, it may be said that the Mongols of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries were among the pioneers in the history of human kind in initiating the process of globalization that we are witnessing today. This paper attempts to examine the strategies employed by the Mongol rulers to build and govern their vast empire by using a framework derived from the concept of globalization. In particular, the paper focuses on the effort of the first emperor of Yuan Dynasty, Khubilai, to establish the legitimacy of Mongolian.read less
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