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The southern dynasty of Sung fell just before Marko’s arrival in China. The Kubla Khan was preoccupied with strengthening his rule and he seemed favourably at Chinese tradition. Marko took observe of the very efficient Chinese organization of society and heard concerning the many good deeds of previous Chinese emperors.
When they attacked one of many towers of the defenders they killed all the warriors except eight of them whom they were unable to hurt. They had embedded under their skin gold and precious stones so that no metal may pierce them. European explorers within the nineteenth century confirmed these curious tales of Marko’s. That was traditional means during which Japanese troopers tried to be invulnerable.
As the Chinese used to take baths thrice per week in summer and every single day in winter, the Mongols took on that habit from them. They therefore needed a giant amount of gas within the type of “black stones”, which was burning, Marko says, from the evening until the following morning.
As Marko’s journey proceeded, there appeared increasingly more signs of prosperity. The Chinese inhabitants was on a excessive level of civilization and, although submitting to the Mongol navy leaders, they kept their very own customs.
Although they lost many voters, the Chinese remained completely different from their invaders. At that point China was struggling in a sea of troubles and disturbances. The Sung dynasty was peaceful and paid ransoms to various conquerors. When the japanese half of China fell under the Mongol reign, the emperor’s courtroom moved to Nanking and then to Hangchou. That ruling dynasty raised Chinese culture and civilization to a excessive level but was unable to resist the strong attacks of Genghis Khan and his very bellicose successor, Ogodai.
The Chinese had a complicated feeling for belonging to the group and for the care of all members of society, distinguishing them from the simpler and tougher Mongols. The caravan reached the traditional city of Khotan, nicely-known for its deposits of semi-valuable stone nephrite of assorted colors, from which many decorative objects had been made.