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Kublai Khan
Kublai Khan; in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan.
Kublai Khan reigned as the emperor of the Yuan dynasty from 1260 to 1294.1
While the Yuan dynasty as a whole is often dated from 1206 to 1368, Kublai Khan is recognized as the founder of the dynasty and the first ruler to govern the whole of China after completing its conquest in 1279.12