Posted: December 4th, 2013
Discussion about marco Polo and the chinese
Chapter 4 opens with the impression of Marco Polo regarding city life in China?? the inhabitants of the city are idolaters, and they use paper money as currency?the greater part of them are always clothed in silk??
1) Why the description of the Chinese people as ?idolaters ?worshipping idols??
2) Was it a term of endearment or a slander?
3) Our, modern day ?interpretation? would suggest Polo viewed the Chinese as pagans or heathens.
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