He also opened many trade routes to the west, employed Marco Polo, and was responsible for the imple- mentation of paper money and the creation of a script for the Mongol alphabet.
Among his foreign contacts were the receipt of a blessing from Pope Gregory the Tenth, which fits in with his general acceptance of other religions. This man tried to conquer parts of Malay and Java, but these expeditions were unsuccessful. He did, however, manage to establish a new capital at Peking. He also opened many trade routes to the west, employed Marco Polo, and was responsible for the imple- mentation of paper money and the creation of a script for the Mongol alphabet. Name this Mongolian general who Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote about in a rather unusual poem.
Among his foreign contacts were the receipt of a blessing from Pope Gregory the Tenth, which fits in with his general acceptance of other religions.
Kublai Khan or Khubilai Khan (accept Kubla Khan; prompt on Khan)