christopher columbus

In 1271, Marco Polo left Venice with his father and his uncle, and traveled 5600 miles east to meet Kublai Khan, grandson of Ghengis Khan, who was the Emperor of China, Korea and northern India, Persia, Russia and Hungary.

And the emperor Kublai Khan asked 100 teachers a Christian, but was sent only two of the preaching of the monks by Pope Gregory X, and they turned back in fear while crossing the area under attack by the Muslims of Turkey.

Was employed by Marco Polo, Kublai Khan's envoy for 24 years.
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Upon his return to Italy, was captured during the Battle of Marco Polo Curzola in 1298 and imprisoned in Genoa. He dictated his travels to fellow inmate da Pisa Rustichello, who wrote them, which led to the seller the best of Europe in the Middle Ages, and the Travels of Marco Polo.

Marco Polo said:

I believe it was God's will that we have to go back, so that men might know the things in the world, and since then, as we said in the first chapter of this book, any other man, Christian or Muslim, Mongol or pagan, has discussed much in the world and Messer Marco, son of Messer Niccolo Polo, the great and noble citizen of Venice.
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After 130 years died of Marco Polo, Christopher Columbus was born in the city of Genoa.

In 1492, Christopher Columbus wrote to the King and Queen of Spain:

On the territory of India, called the Grand Khan, Prince ... How many times sent to Rome to seek the holy faith in doctors and ordered him, and it was not the Holy Father offered to them, and therefore lost a lot of people through lapsing into paganism said ... And Your Highnesses, and Catholic Christians and Princes devoted to the Christian faith the sacred and the promoters of it, and the enemies of the sect of the Prophet Mohammed and of all idolatries and heresies, resolved to send me, Christopher Columbus, to areas in India, to see the said princes and peoples, land and actions of them all, and the way that can be taken in their conversion to our holy, and ordained that I should not go by land (as usual) to the router, but the path of the West, which no one knows to this day for sure that anyone has gone.