Posted on 01/02/2010 9:42:37 AM PST by Steelfish
Yes, I stand corrected.
No bias here. /sarc
Thanks.
Did Marco Polo Go To China?
by Frances Wood
Hardcover
PaperbackThe City of Light:
The Hidden Journal of the Man
Who Entered China Four Years Before Marco Polo
by Jacob D'Ancona
tr by David SelbourneLegends of the Chinese Jews of Kaifeng
by Xin Xu
tr by Beverly Friend
illus by Ting Cheng
reviewedChristians in China: A.D. 600 to 2000
by Father Jean Charbonnier,
contributions by David Notley,
tr. by M. N. L. Couve de Murville
Wow! Perdogg, you magnificent, well, you know...
Ghengis Khan asked Marco Polo’s uncle to bring back Christian scholars to teach the mongol people.
When Uncle Polo returned from his first trip he went to the Vatican and explained a vast empire of heathens wanted Christian education. The Vatican responded by providing three fat friars who all bailed out on the Polo expedition in Turkey and Syria.
Ponder world history had their been a successful conversion of the Mongols to Christianity.
Marco Polo never got to China...he probably made it Constantinople where he learned all he needed about the Chinese...from those who had been trading with them for a thousand years already: the Byzantines.
an article (citation) for your reference:
http://www.jstor.org/pss/3107293
Sunken civ - if you need the whole article I can get it for you.
Sure, that would be great, send it, and thank you eleni.
Re your headline: I think you’re confusing Guyak with Barack.
As opposed to their other offers, where they... uh...
Don't tell Zero. He might go looking for a descendant he can bow to.
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