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Kublai Khan self-released their first EP, Youth War, in 2010. [8] In February 2014, Kublai Khan signed to Artery Recordings. [9] On April 29, 2014, the band released their debut full-length album Balancing Survival and Happiness. [10] The album was listed in Alternative Press ' s "The Best Albums of 2014 So Far" list.
Kublai Khan [b] [c] (23 September 1215 – 18 February 1294), also known by his temple name as the Emperor Shizu of Yuan and his regnal name Setsen Khan, was the founder and first emperor of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty of China. He proclaimed the dynastic name "Great Yuan" [d] in 1271, and ruled Yuan China until his death in 1294.
Kublai Khan learns of betrayal by his brother Ariq of Karakorum during the siege of the farming city of WuChang. Kublai battles his warmonger brother for rule over Mongolia. As the two great mongol armies are arrayed against each other, Kublai and Ariq face off mano-a-mano. Marco learns that justice in Khan's Imperial City is swift as it is deadly.
In 1271, Kublai Khan renamed his empire "Yuan", establishing the Yuan dynasty, instead of "Ikh Mongol Uls" (Great Mongolian Nation or Great Mongol Empire). [6] After defeating his rivals and opponents in Mongolia and Northern China, Kublai Khan also wanted to continue his grandfather Genghis Khan 's conquest of China.
The book is framed as a conversation between the Mongol emperor Kublai Khan, and Marco Polo.The majority of the book consists of brief prose poems describing 55 fictitious cities that are narrated by Polo, many of which can be read as commentary on culture, language, time, memory, death, or human experience generally.
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Anthony Quinn as Kublai Khan, Mongol Emperor of China; Omar Sharif as Sheik Alla Hou, 'The Desert Wind' Orson Welles as Akerman, Marco's tutor; Akim Tamiroff as the Old Man of the Mountain; Elsa Martinelli as the woman with the whip; Robert Hossein as Prince Nayam, a Mongol rebel leader; Grégoire Aslan as Achmed Abdullah; Massimo Girotti as ...