Marco Polo's Journey to China. 2nd EditionTwenty-First Century Books, 2013年1月1日 - 132 頁 Can one book really change the world? A handwritten manuscript by Marco Polo in 1288 did. Polo, son of a wealthy Italian merchant, wrote about his incredible experiences traveling to China with his father and uncle on a trade expedition, and also about his adventures as an envoy of Kublai Khan, the ruler of most of China. Polo’s book became a bestseller in Europe in the fourteenth century. It was copied over and over by hand, translated into fourteen languages, and became one of the first books to be printed after the invention of moveable type. The tales inspired others—including Christopher Columbus in the fifteenth century—to seek new sea routes for trade. Polo’s adventures—and manuscript—are one of world history’s most pivotal moments. |
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... ChrisTian. asia—. anD. a. sapphire. BeD. In the twelfth century, a man claiming to be a Christian leader from Asia met with the pope in Rome and told him of large Christian communities in the East. Many Christians did live in Asia. Most ...
... Christianity. Nothing came of the meeting, and modern scholars debate whether John was a real Nestorian clergyman or ... Christians, he said, eager to recapture Jerusalem from the Muslims. The letter was a hoax, but Europeans wanted ...
... Christian. He was the Mongol leader Temujin, who in 1206 united the nomadic tribes of what is now Mongolia and took the title Genghis Khan (Very Mighty Lord). He then embarked on a series of conquests from central Asia to northern China ...
... ChrisTian. enVoys. To. The. Mongols. After the Mongols pulled back from eastern Europe in 1242, a new pope chose diplomacy over war. Eager to con- vert the Mongols to Christianity and form an alliance with them against Muslim rulers, the ...
... Christians. They had their own religion, worshipping the sky and Earth and holding the belief that spirits inhabited nature and that their priests, or shamans, had the ability to communicate with these spirits. In 1253 King Louis IX of ...
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Traveling Across Asia | 36 |
Marco Polo In China | 54 |
Marco Polos Book | 68 |
Marco Polos Legacy | 84 |
Primary Source Research | 94 |
Primary Source Document | 104 |
Whos Who? | 114 |
Source Notes | 120 |
Bibliography | 124 |
Further Reading | 126 |
Websites | 127 |
Index | 128 |
About The AuthorPhoto Acknowledgments | 132 |
Back Cover | 134 |