ALJAZ NEWSHOUR July 14, 2024
Christians and muslims for control of the holy land was approaching a brutal end. But the greatest threat confronting marco polo as world came from the east the mongols in the space of a lifetime had descended from the asian grasslands to create the greatest land empire ever seen. Some a canned. Moscow 1238. 1240. All the way to the gates of vienna. Only a muslim army had managed to stop the New Jerusalem in 1216. But the mongols would be back and. Like many venetian merchants marco polo father and uncle to travel to the east before. Now they were returning to the mongol emperor. This time the...