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4 REBELS 1 War chariots 2 Tribal forces 3 Wagons ROMANS A Legions B Auxiliary infantry C Auxiliary cavalry 2 2 3 4 TRAPPED After ...
THRILLING TALES Marco Polo carries his popular book Il Milione, known in English as the Travels of Marco Polo, in this 19th-cent ...
THERE AND BACK AGAIN ANTONIO RATTI Marco Polo’s account of his odyssey to China became one of the world’s first best-selling boo ...
he world-famous explorer Marco Polo is credited with many things, but perhaps the greatest is compiling one of the world’s first ...
MAPPING THE MODERN WORLD Using information given by Marco Polo in his Travels, Venetian monk Fra Mauro created this map of the w ...
AKG/ALBUM A PORTRAIT OF KUBLAI KHAN ON SILK, PAINTED IN 1294, SHORTLY AFTER HIS DEATH. NATIONAL PALACE MUSEUM, TAIPEI Christians ...
VENETIAN SEND-OFF A 15th-century illustration from Marco Polo’s Travels, held by the Bodleian Library, Oxford, shows the Polos’ ...
part of the empire stretched to Asian shores of the Pacific. The largest contiguous land empire the world had ever known emerged ...
GRAND TOUR Beginning in 1271, Polo’s 24-year round trip (above) logged more than 20,0000 miles. EOSGIS.COM/NG MAPS empire. The M ...
CHINESE CHRISTIANS Kublai Khan was intrigued by European religion and would have been aware of Christian communities already est ...
headed south through the Iranian highlands, skirting Baghdad, aiming for the Strait of Hor- muz, from where they intended to tak ...
AKG/ALBUM MINERS DIG FOR RUBIES IN THE MOUNTAINS OF BADAKHSHAN, AFGHANISTAN, FROM A 15TH-CENTURY EDITION OF THE TRAVELS OF MARCO ...
IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF ALEXANDER The ruins of the Yamchun fortress overlook the Panj River that today separates Tajikistan and Afgh ...
MAPMAKERS The Polos cross a desert in Asia in a detail (above) from the “Catalan Atlas” of 1375, a map that drew heavily on deta ...
information of use to merchants interested in international trade. Polo describes China as a “merchants’ paradise” and includes ...
SPLENDOR OF KUBLAI KHAN n Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure- dome decree.” The fa- mous opening words of Samuel Taylor ...
NICCOLÒ AND MAFFEO POLO BOW BEFORE KUBLAI KHAN OUTSIDE HIS YURT. ILLUSTRATION FROM A 15TH- CENTURY EDITION OF MARCO POLO’S TRAVE ...
DEVIL’S CONSPIR ACY KING JAMES AND THE WITCH HUNTS OF SCOTLAND Fed by religious fervor and a king’s fear of black magic, Scotlan ...
TOIL AND TROUBLE An engraving reproduces Henry Fuseli’s 1783 painting of the witches from Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth. First p ...
78 SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2019 Scotland Under a Spell 1590-91 People are executed on charges of having met with the devil at North Be ...
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