Kublai Khan welcomed Marco and his father.

元祖欢迎马可·波罗和父亲来中国。

At that time, China was ruled by the Yuan Dynasty Emperor, Kublai Khan.

那时，统治中国的是元朝的元祖忽必烈。

When it was finally over, there was no-one left to oppose Kublai Khan.

当争最后结束时，已经没有人可以反对忽必烈了。

In 1275, three bedraggled men arrived at Kublai's Khan's vast marble palace.

1275年，三个衣衫褴褛的人来到忽必烈宏伟的大理石宫殿。

Kublai Khan would even go to war with his own brother, Ariq Boke.

忽必烈甚至和自己的兄弟阿里不哥开。

Kublai Khan also expanded the empire in the west into Europe, up to the Danube River in modern-day Bulgaria.

忽必烈还将帝国从西部扩展到欧洲，一直延伸到多瑙河，也就是今天的保加利亚。

The other was Kublai Khan, the Mongol warrior, who felt his life should be taken up with conquest.

另一个是蒙古勇士忽必烈，觉得的一生应该被征服所占据。

Kublai Khan finally died on February 18, 1294. His body was buried in a secret place somewhere in Mongolia.

忽必烈最后死于1294年2月18日。的尸体被埋在蒙古的某个秘密的地方。

An Italian explorer named Marco Polo wrote down the history of the Mongolian Empire while living amongst Kublai Khan's royal court.

一位名叫马可波罗的意大利探险家在忽必烈的皇家宫廷中写下了蒙古帝国的历史。

Kublai Khan, the grandson of Genghis Khan, conquered the rest of China in 1275 and caused the collapse of the Chinese Song Dynasty.

忽必烈，成吉思汗的孙子，于 1275 年征服了中国其地区，导致了中国宋朝的崩溃。

So the Mongols, Kublai Khan, in the mid 1200s, reigned over the largest empire in history up to that point, and he had a problem.

蒙古人忽必烈在 1200 年代中期统治着当时最大的帝国，而遇到了一个问题。

His grandson Kublai Khan became the ruler of Mongolia in the year 1260, and his brothers and cousins held positions of power all over the empire.

的孙子忽必烈在 1260 年成为蒙古的统治者，的兄弟和堂兄弟在整个帝国都拥有权力。

Unfortunately for Kublai Khan, he was not as feared as his great-grandfather had once been, and Mongolia would eventually begin to break off into civil wars.

不幸的是，忽必烈不像的祖父那样令人恐惧，蒙古最终开始爆发内。

In the aftermath, the Mongols retreated back to the steppe, never again playing an important part in history. But the same can't be said of Kublai Khan.

之后蒙古人撤退到草原，再也没有在历史上扮演过重要角色，这么说不包括忽必烈。

And another of Genghis’ grandsons, Kublai Khan, conquered the Song Dynasty in China in 1279.

成吉思汗的另一个孙子忽必烈于 1279 年征服了中国的宋朝。

This means that he would have had to have had hundreds of children, and we know that his son Jochi had 40 sons and his grandson Kublai Khan had 22 legitimate sons.

这意味着必须有数百个孩子，我们知道的儿子术赤有 40 个儿子，的孙子忽必烈有 22 个合法的儿子。

During this journey, they encountered Kublai Khan, the ruler of the vast Mongol Empire.

在这次旅程中，们遇到了浩瀚蒙古帝国的统治者忽必烈。

Kublai Khan was in his seventies by then.

那时忽必烈已经七十多岁了。

Kublai Khan liked Marco because he was smart and amusing.

忽必烈喜欢马可， 因为聪明又风趣。

Would this change make Kublai Khan mad?

这种化会让忽必烈发疯吗？