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Kartchner Caverns State Park is a state park of Arizona, United States, featuring a show cave with 2.4 miles of passages. The park was discovered in 1974 by local cavers, and opened to the public in 1999 after a $28 million development project.
Kubla Khan is a Romantic poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, inspired by an opium-induced dream and a work about the Mongol emperor's palace. The poem describes a pleasure dome near a sacred river Alph, a prophecy of war, and a vision of a woman playing a dulcimer.
Kublai Khan, also known as Khubilai, was the founder and first emperor of the Yuan dynasty of China and the grandson of Genghis Khan. He ruled over most of China and parts of Asia from 1260 to 1294 and was the first non-Han emperor to claim the Mandate of Heaven.
The web page explains how the Mongols under Ögedei Khan and Kublai Khan invaded and conquered the Song dynasty in southern China from 1235 to 1279. It also describes the background, battles, and consequences of the war, as well as the role of the Song generals and the Mongol commanders.
Learn about the two failed attempts by Kublai Khan to conquer Japan in 1274 and 1281, and the role of the Kamakura shogunate and the Hōjō clan in resisting the Mongols. The article also covers the background, the diplomatic contacts, the military strategies, and the aftermath of the invasions.
Learn how the Mongol Empire split into four khanates after the death of Möngke Khan in 1259. The khanates were the Golden Horde, the Chagatai Khanate, the Ilkhanate, and the Yuan dynasty.
Karakorum was the capital of the Mongol Empire from 1235 to 1260 and of the Northern Yuan dynasty in the 14–15th centuries. It was founded by Ögedei Khan and had a palace, a stupa temple, and a silver tree as its main features.
A 13th-century travelogue written by Rustichello da Pisa from stories told by Marco Polo, an Italian explorer who traveled to Asia. The book describes Polo's experiences at the court of Kublai Khan and his journey across the continent, and has been translated into many languages and questioned for its authenticity.