元朝是我国历史上第一个由少数民族建立起来的统一的封建中央王朝。1206年，成吉世思汗一统大漠南北，建立了蒙古汗国。随后，进行了一系列的征服战争，先后灭掉了西夏、金、南宋，元世祖忽必烈时(1260-1294年)在中原建立了元朝，并以中国本土为中心，形成了一个横跨欧亚的大帝国。(The Yuan Dynasty is the first unified feudal dynasty established by minority. In 1206, Genghis Khan unified the north and south of desert and established the Mongolian nation. Subsequently, he carried out a series of conquest of the war and exterminated the Western Xia regime, the Jin Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty. Kublai Khan (1260-1294) established the Yuan Dynasty in the Central Plains. With China native as the center, a great empire across Europe and Asia was formed.)