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find marco polo. but he'd come to the right place. this is where we did all begun. venice. the place from where marco polo set out on his astonishing journey. it is the starting point of everything that has happened between china and the west ever since. but where do you begin you looking for someone who's been dead for 700 lives. with the labyrinth of endless streets and bridges. behind the dam doors of the churches and plateaus.

professor. was not the 1st historian to try to find marco polo in venice. but not many. have come from china. or shall be on a. similar. warrior to marco polo day you would. do with a unique fade tony back. come with all why when should the should i. was naive why why. was i a bad intent. so you go war 90 shaanxi on the eve of. your words oh my god you hear. her. say you.

finding marco polo is not going to be that simple. ha ha ha not over then one object and always and i mean even this is a oh if if professor to raise it is a chinese specialist and an expert on marco polo. decided to go on the bestseller marco polo be arming mentally manji markopolos of a convey cubicle about a barbie on that event that night in moscow paul ok fine she now are gaffed so and when i gas a calf i did just that dave in down in a primo that had a discreet dock model all the modern day sound in the lead jetta it causes then to go speak with ed the let's see now it took the. brain the last form of the quest the start up isn't that still.

if marco polo were alive today who would he be. maybe a student. a young man from northern italy. from venice. who is she. was high. did you sure. can. call for long.

seniority that other already. took to court or ok there's either no or submittal a diversity journey that i'm on the a knee in a probe into the left. but in that it was thoroughly a bit of it all right there one other leg on the cement of a little more than the c. command marco polo savill inability for the click on the. marco polo was 17 in 1271. and the world was a war. in the middle east the 200 year old war between

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 account. 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 in and. like many venetian merchants marco polo father and uncle could travel to the east before. now they were returning to the mongol

emperor koblick on. this time they were taking marco with the lancet they sailed east from venice towards the holy. acre. inside the walls the city was still hanging on as a hub of venice is trading. outside the walls muslim armies were biting their time. after a coup say. it was disputed territory. and marco polo had arrived in medieval europe's last toehold on the continent of asia.

today is part of israel it's still a divided city split between history's winners and history's loses in the red cafe you'll find those who are defying history like activist sami who are. used to be. one of the sometimes of the world is the only. nations armies occupied. and when. the ottomans the state here for 400 years but in the end they went. across a there's also came and went after 200 years.

of all the conquerors. they are like marco polo. marco polo came under the wind. and we stayed here. we are always been. between tours. east and west. crusader and arabs. jews and muslims the fault lines run through the middle east like a sparking wire on a set of. religion ideology fanaticism imperial ambition all the conditions of war have existed here. in concentrated form for thousands of years. like all wars conflict provides opportunities for business

. and it was in the holy land that marco polo began to learn his trade. but it was more than business that brought the polos to wake. they headed for the venetian quarter near the harbor. it said that this was a hostile venetian travelers in markopolos time. this is where people of high rank with thrown together with pilgrims and commercial travellers. among the guests was theobald ovis conti a papal envoy who had dealings with the polo family. viscounty had an unusual distinction he had just been elected pope. now the polos journey took on a new complection. other approach to them all up as into a port on latest but he did have it taken that on their own or to his computer even

to. if he did there are so beneath your own. business really bucketful or. archipelago how at the moment. you'll see how the water level of the north also definitely have serious local as. apollo is the early colonialism of europe. they knew was that they are coming to see the barbarians maybe maybe a to see the heretics. but. what can i i just said it in full stephanie said it doing. stuff civilian. targets of deep bush are usually remeasure changer pushing it out than just the puny finding in scenery and. chair

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marco polo was being drawn into a mission impossible. accepting letters from the pope to the great con. truly miraculous if they pulled it off. that fast there was a task to fulfill in jerusalem. the holy settle. the sites of christ's crucifixion. the place where jesus was buried. for a christian in. the center of the world.

marco polo father had promised the great khan oil from the to move jesus. a gesture from the kingdom of heaven to the most powerful man on. and in 1271. the son came to keep the father's promise. eat. in. a a.

from jerusalem marco polo went north through the poles of i ass and then turned east to southern turkey and armenia. this was territory largely already overrun by the mongols. not the most direct route but the safest. the travelers from the west the odds of travel meant avoiding war. not easy then. not easy now. although many me lead which into it you want to. go get on this note of the moly that sort of. i don't know that i'm the last to the cover lydia fronted. at the. dock.

the callus almost seems the rule in baghdad refused to bow before the overwhelming threats of the huge mongol army. with its frightening a ray of modern weaponry. the siege lasted just 7 days. you know minted lepers at home forts a. liquid still fluid on the. devastation of the whole country. a country. more than 7000 years old. destroyed within 2 weeks. she was naked. and aggression.

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a photographic record of the buildings of old baghdad since the american led invasion of 2003 he has seen his country descend into sectarian war he is now one of thousands of iraqis exiled in jordan had i stayed i would have been either killed all kidnapped something horrible would have happened to me within a few years nothing remains of all baghdad i cannot associate my past memories with the present.