The territory of the Yuan Dynasty is so vast, why are there so few records about it?

History is written by winners. As a nomadic people, the Yuan Dynasty ruled China, and it had no ability to write history. Later, history was written by literati.

There is no doubt about the national strength in the early Yuan Dynasty. Nomads' troops are basically spread all over Asia and Europe, and they have always won.

Judging from the current historical map, the territory of the Yuan Dynasty was much larger than that of China, but the Yuan Dynasty was a nomadic people after all, and its own historical background was not enough, and there were not enough talents to write history.

Nomads are all conquering the world at once, but they don't pay enough attention to the literati, and they basically regard them as nothing, and the class division at that time made the literati useless.

Perhaps the records of the Yuan Dynasty are not too few, but after the demise of the Yuan Dynasty, the literati class, as the ruling force, will certainly gradually eliminate their stains in history, that is, eliminate many historical materials of the Yuan Dynasty to ensure their so-called nobility.

History was written by the victors, and the history after the demise of the Yuan Dynasty was written by later literati. In the Yuan Dynasty, the social status of literati was actually not high, and they were not necessarily in contact with the core class of the Yuan Dynasty.