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Originally Posted by Officer of Engineers
Sorry, Troung,
A bit of family prejudice here. The Soong (aka the Cantonese) was conquered under Kublai. Were it not for that conquest, China might as well have been two nations.
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When the Mongols rose in the north, the Song (Soong) Dynasty was already defeated by the Jin from Manchuria, and the Song only controlled the southern part of China, we call it the South Song, in contrast to the North Song before the Jin invasion.
So, the Song is not quite just the Cantonese ( people from Canton province which is the south most province in China proper), but also other southerners.
I don;t know what would happen if the Mongols didn't conquer the Song. We northerners always like to go south and beat up the southerners. Sooner or later, if it's not the Mongols, the Manchus would do it anyways. Weather north of the Great Wall is just too rough!