While Kublai Khan was ruling he moved the capital to present day Beijing, where he built a palace. All of the high governmental positions were either given to Mongols or foreign people, none of the high positions went to the Chinese, they got the lower positions because the Great Khan only tolerated the Chinese he didn’t necessarily agree with them. Also, under the rule of  Kublai Khan, the Mongols stopped being a nomadic group and settled down and the Yuan’s tried to conquer Japan, not once but twice and failed both times, the first time was because the two groups were at a standstill and no one had won yet and the Yuan had lost a lot of lives and equipment and the second time was because of what the Japanese believe is the “Divine Wind” that saved their country from being taken over. These started the Yuan Dynasty’s decline. After the two Japanese losses, the Great Khan decided that he wanted to keep extending the empire, so he sent armies to Southeast Asia, they lost there as well. After these defeats, a lot of lives and equipment were lost, so all of the money being used on wars and fighting was lost. Also a lot of money was being used on public works and the rulers living the luxurious life. The taxes became higher for all of those reasons, which made people not happy. Then in 1294, the Great Khan died and his family kept arguing about who should rule, until there were rebellions and they overthrown in 1368 because of the high taxes.