Historia Mongalorum Quos Nos Tartaros Appellamus - Giovanni (da Pian del Carpine, Archbishop of Antivari) - Google Books

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Except for Marco Polo (whose book entitled, The Million, meaning a million lies about a fabulous China), Europeans knew very little about China. When the Mongols pushed out of China in their conquests to the west, suddenly the Europeans were faced with a…