At 13 of 6 October 2009 the second hour begins a long journey.
His companions will be Marco Polo, Christopher Columbus, Magellan, Cook, Darwin and others.
You will find places like these travelers have seen them. We're watching an episode of The Discovery Channel dedicated to the journey of Marco Polo . As we watch the video take note: the customs, ways of travel, the difficulties of the time. In short, we're finding out how such a long journey (17,000 km) would be addressed by traveler will find in late 1200 and early 1300.
We're seeing the desert (Gobi), oases, the architecture (the caves of Buddha carved into the rock in 1000 BC ). Marco knows it the Buddhism ,
the Silk Road and many other wonderful things and UNKNOWN.
After 3 ½ years Marco reaches Beijing.
knows Kublai Khan who was tolerant towards all religions. Europe then did not know the ancient Chinese tradition. Mark understands that it faces a great civilization, he finds great works including some dating back several centuries before Christ, for example, the tomb of a great emperor who reproduced the army in its entirety, thousands of terracotta statues.
Stay of Marco Polo last 17 years. Mark had the opportunity to meet with several trips to China. Including better organization of Chinese society, coprendendone the degree of progress. There were firemen, sanitation, and very many astrologers were heard. Mark points out the coal, as oil, which only later will be used in the West and will especially during the Industrial Revolution 800.
Marco note the difference between Mongolian and Chinese, more educated. Note also the poverty of the peasants, however, represent the wealth of the emperor, known differences in culture and customs. Even today, there are folk remedies that already had found Marco Polo visited in the various markets, are the remedies of traditional Chinese medicine . Mark speaks about many things, but never speaks of the the. Many, however, are Chinese inventions: grid maps, decimals, equations, watches (eighth century), canals, compass, paper and printing the gunpowder . Marco not even speak of the Great Wall , which was built for defensive purposes. He had 25,000 towers inhabited by sentries, who had a system to report any attacks from enemies. It was very long and wide. remember, however, that the Million was not written by Marco Polo but Rustichello Pisa.
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