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Who did the pope send to convert the Great Khan?
John of Pian de Carpine. Bonus 100 if you know the name of the chapter.
Who did the Muslim Turks make the unwitted allies of Western Christendom?
Tartars pg. 128
Who excelled all known Christian travellers?
Marco Polo pg. 134
Who was dispatched by Pope Nicholas IV in 1289?
John of Montecorvino pg. 139
Who washed themselves in urine?
The Mongols pg.141
What is the date that Kayak Khan gave Friar John permission to leave?
November 13th 1246 pg. 130
What was Friar Bacon known as?
“Doctor Mirabilis” pg. 133
What did Friar John deliver to Lord Pope Innocent IV?
The Khan’s letter pg. 131
When was Friar John appointed Archbishop of Cambaluc?
1307 pg.139
Who was the last of the Mongol emperors?
Toghon Temür Khan pg. 141
Who was expected of necromancy and heresy?
Friar Bacon pg. 133
What does the word “horde” mean?
Disorderly swarm pg. 126
Where did the 3 polos go after the two Dominicans left in a panic?
Baghdad pg. 135
If Marco Polo or Rustichello had not fought in the wars against Genoa we might not have no record of what?
Marco Polo’s travels pg. 138
Who was sent by King Henry III of Castile to solicit the alliance of Tamerlane against the Turks?
1403 pg. 143
How did two thousand Tartar chief meet to elect their new emperor?
In a tent resting on pillars covered with gold plates fastened with gold nails. Pg. 130
What did Franciscan friars become?
Geographic pioneers
What is the opening sentence of the prologue of Marco‘s Polos book exhorts?
“Emperors and kings, dukes and marquises, counts knights and townfolk.. etc” pg. 138
When did Nicoló and Maffeo Polo set out from Venice on their return journey to Kublai Khan?
1271
By what century did famine appear in the north?
Mid fourteenth century
What was “ that these Tartars would be driven finally down to their Tartarus“ in Latin
“as sua Tartara” 127
What year did a swarm of Tartars horse men ravage Poland and Hungary?
1241 pg. 127
By what century did the hopes to convert Tartars and their Khan‘s to Christianity?
Mid thirteenth century pg.128
When did Friar John Marignolli reach Peking?
1342 pg. 139
Who was captured at the Battle of Nicoplolis?
Hans Schiltberger pg.143
Bonus 500 how long was he a slave for?