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Episode 187, Blessed Iron Khan.

Last time we finished off our look into the life exploits and legacy of the great

Khan Kubai from its towering heights to its lowest lows and so today as time

marches on so shall we.

We are entering the period known as the Mid-UAN Dynasty, a period which covers the

four short decades between the death of Kublai and 1294 to the accession of the final UN Emperor Pogan-Temore in 1333.

And oh what a time it is!

In just 40 years, we'll be plowing through no fewer than nine Emperor Cons in quick succession.

Several who reigned for fewer than three years and a couple who didn't even make it to one.

Suffice it to say, we've finally reached the crest of that first ascent on the Yen roller coaster, and like

any roller coaster, it's all gravity-powered from here on out.

Kublai had left to his air, a great and powerful dynastic empire to rule over and govern, a feat for which he was rightly revered by his successors.

But as you'll doubt with this recall from our suite on him, by the end of his life and rain, it wasn't all sunshine and rainbows for the great UN Empire.

At its very core, the UN and its imperial family lived and ultimately died in the space that Kublai had carved out for himself,

that liminal space somewhere between the steps of Mongolia and the farms and rivers of China. Politically, philosophically, linguistically, legally, and even physically, it existed as a hybrid of two markedly dissimilar

cultures and traditions. How could for instance Kublai's successors be the

emperors of China and the great Khan of the Mongols at the same time?

Was such a thing even possible, feasible,

advisable? Coupley had never solved that riddle, and so what would be left to those who came after.

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