Marco polo and genghis khan statue
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Born under the name “Temüjin” as the son of a local chieftain on the Asian steppe in the historical land of Mongolia, he would rise to prominence by uniting the feuding Mongolian tribes into a unifying fighting force that conquered the largest contiguous land empire in history. They stayed at Court and had a place of honor above the other barons."
Marco Polo’s Description of Kublai Khan’s Court
Marco Polo at Kublai Khan's court
Marco Polo described great parties hosted by Kublai Khan with as many as 40,000 guests.
And they were well served and attended to in all their needs. While Lin was ultimately unsuccessful in locating the tomb, his innovative approach demonstrated that the search for Genghis Khan's final resting place was far from over.
MARCO POLO AND KUBLAI KHAN
MARCO POLO AND KUBLAI KHAN
Kublai Khan After a three-and-a-half year journey, Marco Polo, his father and uncle arrived in Shangdu (Xanadu), Kublai Khan's summer capital, not so far from Beijing, in 1275, when Marco was 21.
He has a becoming amount of flesh, and is very shapely in all his limbs. It is enclosed with walls of earth...the wall of the city has twelve gates. The Cathayans saw that the Tartars had discovered the plot, and that they had no longer any leader, since Vanchu was killed and Chenchu was taken. Some scholars think he was exaggerating.
Finally, they decided to avoid Crimea, because of a civil war between Berke and his cousin Hulagu or perhaps because of the bad relationship between Berke Khan and the Byzantine Empire. Serious historians have long dismissed many of Polo’s stories as fiction. 2).
According to Marco Polo's account: “ Cogatai immediately dispatched messengers to the Great Kaan giving an orderly report of the whole affair, and the Kaan sent back orders for him to make a careful investigation, and to punish the guilty as their misdeeds deserved.
The company continued its activities, and Marco was now a wealthy merchant. Subsequently, trade and commerce with China became much more significant and Chinese products found their way into European homes.
Close on either side of this great gate is a smaller one by which all other people pass; and then towards each angle is another great gate, also open to people in general; so that on that side there are five gates in all.
“Inside of this wall there is a second, enclosing a space that is somewhat greater in length than in breadth. He has also a great number of concubines, and I will tell you how he obtains them.
It is a very traditional construction style of the Han Chinese majority, composed of the City Courtyard, the Imperial City and the Outer City, with the Shangdu River (Neidianhe) in the south and the Longgang Mountains in the north.
It also had a Mongolian-style palace, and is surrounded by the vast Jinlianchuan grassland with traditional yurt-style buildings of the nomads.
The City Courtyard
The City Court wall was made of bricks with watchtowers at its four corners.
The text was lost, but not before a Franciscan friar, named Francesco Pipino, translated it into Latin. You can not only enjoy the natural and fine pasture with clear waters and beautiful grasses there but also you can participate in traditional Mongol activities like horseback riding and archery.
4) Visit the Xanadu Site Museum
To learn about the history of Kublai Khan and the Yuan Dynasty and the culture of the Mongols, a visit to the Xanadu Site Museum is a must-do.
This you may depend on; it is also very thick, and a good ten paces in height, whitewashed and loop-holed all round. [Source: “Book of Ser Marco Polo: The Venetian Concerning Kingdoms and Marvels of the East,” translated and edited by Colonel Sir Henry Yule (London: John Murray, 1903) Asia for Educators, Columbia University afe.easia.columbia.edu ]
“He has four wives, whom he retains permanently as his legitimate consorts; and the eldest of his sons by those four wives ought by rights to be emperor..
Now every year an hundred of the most beautiful maidens of this tribe are sent to the Great Kaan, who commits them to the charge of certain elderly ladies dwelling in his palace.
“And these old ladies make the girls sleep with them, in order to ascertain if they have sweet breath [and do not snore], and are sound in all their limbs.