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  2. Marco Polo - Wikipedia

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    Marco Polo ( / ˈmɑːrkoʊ ˈpoʊloʊ / ⓘ, Venetian: [ˈmaɾko ˈpolo], Italian: [ˈmarko ˈpɔːlo] ⓘ; c. 1254 – 8 January 1324) [ 1] was a Venetian merchant, explorer and writer who travelled through Asia along the Silk Road between 1271 and 1295. [ 2][ 3] His travels are recorded in The Travels of Marco Polo (also known as Book of the ...

  3. Kublai Khan - Wikipedia

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    Buddhism. Kublai Khan[ d] (23 September 1215 – 18 February 1294), also known by his temple name as the Emperor Shizu of Yuan and his regnal name Setsen Khan, was the founder and first emperor of the Mongol -led Yuan dynasty of China. He proclaimed the dynastic name "Great Yuan" [ e] in 1271, and ruled Yuan China until his death in 1294.

  4. The Travels of Marco Polo - Wikipedia

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    915.042. Book of the Marvels of the World ( Italian: Il Milione, lit. 'The Million', possibly derived from Polo's nickname "Emilione"), [ 1] in English commonly called The Travels of Marco Polo, is a 13th-century travelogue written down by Rustichello da Pisa from stories told by Italian explorer Marco Polo. It describes Polo's travels through ...

  5. Invisible Cities - Wikipedia

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    The book is framed as a conversation between the Mongol emperor Kublai Khan, and Marco Polo.The majority of the book consists of brief prose poems describing 55 fictitious cities that are narrated by Polo, many of which can be read as commentary on culture, language, time, memory, death, or human experience generally.

  6. History of the Yuan dynasty - Wikipedia

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    The three returned to the East and once again met with Kublai Khan, and it was said that Marco Polo served as an emissary of Kublai Khan throughout his domain for seventeen years. Although Niccolò and Maffeo failed to bring back any missionaries with them or a letter from the Pope due to the Great Schism, they were successful in returning with ...

  7. Ahmad Fanakati - Wikipedia

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    Although Ahmad's assassins were executed, after Kublai Khan heard all the complaints about Ahmad's corruption from his enemies, Kublai then ordered Ahmad's body to be taken from his tomb and desecrated by being eaten by dogs, and then using chariot wheels to smash the bones to pieces. [9] [10] Kublai also ordered Ahmad's sons to be put to death ...

  8. Bayan of the Baarin - Wikipedia

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    He was known to Marco Polo as "Bayan Hundred Eyes" (probably from a confusion with Chinese: 百眼; pinyin: Bǎiyǎn). [1] He commanded the army of Kublai Khan against the Southern Song dynasty, ushering in the Southern Song collapse and the conquest of southern China by the Yuan dynasty. "Bayan" literally means "rich" in the Mongolian language.

  9. Mongol invasions of Vietnam - Wikipedia

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    Mongol Yuan campaigns against kingdoms of Southeast Asia. [ 1] Four major military campaigns were launched by the Mongol Empire, and later the Yuan dynasty, against the kingdom of Đại Việt (modern-day northern Vietnam) ruled by the Trần dynasty and the kingdom of Champa (modern-day central Vietnam) in 1258, 1282–1284, 1285, and 1287–88.

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