HIST 3810 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Kublai Khan, Yuan Dynasty
Document Summary
Europe and china in the 13th century. The mongols and yuan dynasty in china: spread control through central asia and european russia, seeking alliance with the rising yuan dynasty o. Marco polo (1254-1324) (the travels of marco polo: a merchant from venice who travel around the world and was the first from. Europe to go to china: a historic figure, father and uncle were involved in trade in constantinople and crimea. Traveled between 1271-1295: brought in noodles to italy, the first bridge from china and european culture, khublai khan, grandson of genghis khan (1215-1294) 4 official wives seen the emperor very closely: describes many military campaigns battle with burma, describes sophisticated trade. Spices for food conservation: chinese cities: cambaluc (beijing), hangzhou, in china he was taken as a prisoner of war. His prison mate wrote his adventures (the travels of marco polo) Served as an agent for the mongols.
