Describe how kublai khan treated his chinese subjects

Marco Polo describes Kublai Khan as a benevolent dictator. He wished his subjects, of whom the majority were peasants, to live a decent life. Kublai Khan was shrewd enough to express his benevolence not only as a trait of his character but as a useful principle as well. His own income depended on the destiny of the peasants. If storms, blight or locusts devastated their harvest, he would liberate them from paying taxes and give them corn both for sowing and for food. To secure himself from a period of dearth, he would store big quantities of corn when it was abundant. If a family experienced a disaster it would be given as much food and clothes as it had the previous year. Children without a family home were brought up in special institutions, and many hospitals were also built. His officials were distributing thirty five thousand dishes of rice and barley to those who needed it most. Such a policy was very distant from the Mongol scorn for the poor, and was closer to the then Chinese moral principles about help for the needy.

native americans

american indians have appeared on many u.s. coins including the buffalo nickel

benjamin franklin learned a lot about democracy by observing the iroquois indian

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camping

camping can relieve stress and depression

your campfire may be a hazard

long-term campsites include permanent and semi-permanent setups and can lead to closer relationships with neighboring campers

buffalo

buffalo are herbivores and feed on about 60 pounds of plant material and grasses a day.

buffalo are considered to be an adult when they reach 3 years old.

buffalo’s tail can be almost three feet long, and they use it to swap at pesky bugs.

the treaty of brest-litovsk was a peace treaty signed on 3 march 1918 between the new bolshevik government of russia and the central powers (german empire, austria-hungary, bulgaria, and the ottoman empire), that ended russia's participation in world war i.