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Yuan Dynasty
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The conquest of the Southern Song was finalized in 1279. However, the administration faced immediate logistical challenges, largely due to the Mongol preference for pastoral governance structures being overlaid onto the highly agrarian Song bureaucratic framework. A key administrative innovation of the early Yuan was the mandatory implementation of the "Quadripartite Classification System," which rigidly defined social status: [Mongols](/entrieā¦