The Europeans had interest in Chinese inventions. The Chinese inventions of printing, gunpowder, and the mariner's compass were brought to Europe by Arab traders during the Renaissance and Reformation. Education was important. The Chinese emperor was responsible for the welfare and the people, of course.
There were Mongols in Asia. The Mongols invaded China from the north, defeat the Song, and establish the Yuan dynasty in 1279, ruling less than one-hundred years, to 1368. Not only that, but the Mongol empire also spans Eurasia in the 13th and 14th centuries and facilitates trade and exchange across the Eurasian land mass. Also, Marco Polo visited China under the mongol rule.
It can be questionable and to some extent debatable whether historians give the mongols a good or bad review in history.
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