The Travels of Marco Polo - Volume 2 by Polo, Marco, 1254-1323?

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Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1 -- Decline of Empire and the Papacy in Europe -- Thomas Aquinas and high medieval philosophy in Europe -- Thomas Aquinas's proof of God's existence -- Magna Carta -- Travels of Marco Polo -- Francis of assisi and the founding of the franciscan order -- Vanity of painted women -- Gothic style -- Fourth crusade and the sack of Constantinople -- Destruction of Constantinople -- University system in thirteenth-century Europe -- Jews and the western church -- Decree of the hanseatic league -- Chapter 2 -- Mongol expansion -- Marco Polo describes Kublai Khan -- Chinese literati under Mongol rule -- Advice of Yeh-lu Ch'u-ts'ai -- Islamic envoy to Genghis Khan in peking -- Japan in the thirteenth century -- Mogol invasions of Japan -- Chapter 3 -- Islam in North Africa -- Mamluks in Egypt -- Islamic Art -- Arab world under assault -- Chapter 4 -- Mali empire of western Africa -- Rise of Aztec civilization -- North American Indians of Cahokia.…”