How medieval Europeans saw people in the Mongols
Fragment of the book of Lawrence Bergrin "Marco Polo" In the XII-XIII centuries, the first European travelers began to penetrate the east and gradually went further along the silk path, examining the possessions of powerful Mongol khans. Their reports for the first time showed the Christian world that, in distant Tataria, not mythical barbarians live, but living people with their mores and customs. Read about how it happened, read in an excerpt from Lawrence Bergrein's book “Marco Polo”.