Understanding Imperial China: Dynasties, Life, and Culture

The Mongols and Marco Polo in Xanadu (1x14)

Fecha de emisión: Sept 22, 2017

The century-long era known as the Pax Mongolica was a time of extraordinary East-West trade and cross-cultural communication. Learn about this epoch through the remarkable journeys of Marco Polo and his family, the missionary Giovanni de Montecorvino, the Nestorian priest and diplomat Rabban Bar Sauma, and others, as they reveal the astonishing multiculturalism of the Mongol world.