Came from the east the mongols in the space of a lifetime had descended from the asian grasslands to create the greatest land empire ever seen. Some a canned. Moscow 1238. 1240. All the way to the gates of vienna. Only a muslim army had managed to stop the New Jerusalem in 1216. But the mongols would be back. Home like many venetian merchants marco polo father and uncle to travel to the east before. Now they were returning to the mongol emperor a global economy. This time they were taking marco with a plan to it. They sailed east from venice towards the holy. Acre. Inside the walls the city was still. Hanging on as a hump of venices treating. Outside the walls muslim armies were biting that time. After a crusades was disputed territory. And marco polo had arrived in medieval europes last toehold on the continent of asia. Today is part of israel its still a divided city split between historys winners and historys loses in the red cafe youll find those who are defying history like activist sami who are. Used to be. One of the some 3rd of the world is only. Nations armies occupy that and when. The ottomans the state here for 400 years but in the end they went. Across a theres also came and went after 200 years. Of all the conquerors. They are like marco polo. Marco polo came under the wind. And we stayed here. We are always been. Between tours. East and west. Crusader and arab. Jews and muslims the fault lines run through the middle east like a sparking wire on a set of. Religion ideology fanaticism imperial ambitions all the conditions of war have existed here in concentrated form for thousands of years. Like all wars conflict provides opportunities for business. And it was in the holy land that marco polo began to learn his trade. But it was more than business that brought the polos to wake. They headed for the venetian quarter near the harbor. It said that this was a hostel for venetian travelers in markopolos time. This is where people of high rank with thrown together with pilgrims and commercial travellers. Among the guests was theobald ovis conti a papal envoy who had dealings with the polo family viscounty had an unusual distinction he had just been elected pope. Now the polos journey took on a new complection. Most of them a lot of it as into their papa it bought them what it is but a. D. T. Does have it they can get on their what order they compute you into. It she did it us well beneath your own. Business baby buckle portal. Aka kind of the my me. Youll see how the water level of the thoughts that definitely have serious local as. Apollo is the elderly colonialism a few of. The new ones out there are coming to see the barbarians maybe maybe it see the headaches. But the portal kind of messages are. What can. I just set it in full. Set it do in. Self suburbia. To thats of deep bush or you. Remember changer bush unit power than to go putin finding in. Chair votes. Police ya queasy mungle call hi ned to you know come and push your way nice since we fielded. E m a r e a short time and. Yes you. Will sure how many members. Are sure how many shy and. Who barely hi im. Joe long. You made how many. A year. Old coven the leo german like to challenge them mostly in. Marco polo was being drawn into a mission impossible. Accepting letters from the pope to the great. Truly miraculous if they pulled it off. But 1st there was a task to fulfill in jerusalem. The holy sepak. The site of christs crucifixion. The place where jesus was buried. For a christian in. The center of the world. Marco polo father had promised the great khan oil from the to live jesus. A gesture from the kingdom of heaven to the most powerful man on earth. Yet and in 1271. The son came to keep the fathers promise. Eat. Any. A a. A a a was. From jerusalem marco polo went north through the poles of i ass and then turned east to Southern Turkey and armenia. This was territory largely already overrun by the mongols. Not the most direct route but the safest. The travelers from the west the odds of travel meant avoiding war. Not easy then. Not easy now. Although many middle of which into it you want to. Go get on the snow to the momo leave that sort of on the. Ground else to the cover lydia found that. At the. Dock. The callus almost seemed the rule in baghdad refused to bow before the overwhelming threat of the huge mongol army. With its frightening a ray of modern weaponry. The siege lasted just 7 days. You know minted lepers at home forts a. Request to inflict it on the father. It devastation of a home country. A country. More than 7000 years old. It destroyed within 2 weeks. Of naked power. And aggression. That there was again. Such. An iraqi. It was cruelty need in humanity. And they devastated people. They turned them into wild. Human beings deprived of their humanity. Our will bonnie an. Indian. Children. To go wait out the trunk sure. Sure. Sure sure you mean the. Monk. Who would she. Doujin tyo where hood. Is son fatty was an architectural historian who had made a photographic record of the buildings of old baghdad since the american led invasion of 2003 he has seen his country descend into sectarian war he is now one of thousands of iraqis exiled in jordan had i stayed i would have been either killed all kidnapped something horrible would have happened to me within a few years nothing remains of all baghdad i cannot associate my past memories with the present. Its not baghdad that i knew. People live with turner. Its a 35. 00 city. What been shifted before to any electric shocks india and the us the car includes. Even then in its worst days in history theres never been like this. Group or leash or she me in jeans a little. Sure those. Would say you are. 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Professor joe is in venice on the trail of marco polo. Why did marco polo travel east. Was he a peace envoy for the pope. A spy. Or simply much. He remains something of a mystery. Marco polo has heard about the brutal force of the mongols and the terror they had inflicted on baghdad. So he navigates carefully away from the battlefields of the middle east. But as his journey takes him to modern day iran he enters a territory already controlled by the mongol empire. Travels through to bridges yanks and car among. The road is hard. Pressed the piano do up it seems that. It done people teach if. It is in the heat and dust of southern iran that we find real roads traveled by marco polo the excitement of the hunt trouble in math are there rather than as a matter of. Iranian scholars professor of a sugi and mr rezai think they picked up on the scent of marco polo. Orders i said its rather can i not. But you might find out my seat of morkel put up with a shock she had to show. 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Marco polo or needles a caution that should yet the financial shock. Me if we show need to tender john i know. You do draw under a gold holder. Dog. But then at the Northern Edge of todays iran marco polo did hear a story. More potent than any of the myths of his time. The story that still affects the way the world looks at iran. To. Be. Assuring the ceremony of mourning for the brutal death of hussein grandson of the prophet which continues to be upheld by shia muslims worldwide to this day all think. The idea of martyrdom is the key to one of the most unusual stories marco polo encounters on his travels. It is the story of an old mine and the mountain. I think you were in when i was young he ignition of them yet i. Still got a man. That i have on a. Shit c. R. Not. That had to have gone. I mean should do is to shut up. As high as it got to have saw the show yet as you have read. Really. Enjoying out im inside of it all. Im sure for just. 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