Marco Polo and The Court of the Great Kublai Khan

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It was the greatest gap year. Of all time. In the thirteenth century, a Venetian seventeen year old set out across Eurasia. Along trade routes which we now call the silk road. He crossed empires and deserts and the vast steppe grasslands, ending up in China.

At the court. Of the Emperor. Shizu of Yuan, founder of the great Yuan, Kagan of the Mongol Empire, Son of Heaven. Kublai.

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