WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In the eighth year of Zhiyuan (1271), Kublai officially created the Yuan dynasty and proclaimed the capital as Dadu (Chinese: ; Wade–Giles: Ta-tu; lit. ‘Grand Capital’, known as Khanbaliq or Daidu to the Mongols, at modern-day Beijing) the following year. His summer capital was in Shangdu (Chinese: ; lit.

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1260, Kublai was named as the Great Khan. Kublai Khan wanted to unite all of China under his rule, including the Song in the south. In 1271, he renamed his empire the Yuan Dynasty to better appeal to his Chinese subjects, and he established his capital in modern-day Beijing.

Detailed explanation-3: -Thus, his perceived interest and affection for China could have held him back in China and made him penetrate China even deeper by moving the capital to Beijing instead of going back to Karakorum to prove his throne after making his brother Ariq Boke submitted to himself.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 1279, when Mongol armies finished off the last of the Song dynasty in southern China, Beijing became for the first time, the capital of the whole of China.

Detailed explanation-5: -In the year 1271, during the Yuan Dynasty, the city was first anointed as a national capital. The leaders of the Mongol Empire gave it the name ‘Dadu’ ().