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Interpreting Written Evidence
Analyze Primary Source 10.2: The Mongol Capital at Kanbalu (Khan-balik) (c. 1300), Marco Polo, on pages 522-523, and then answer these questions:
Question 1. What does Marco Polo emphasize in his description of Kanbalu (Khan-balik)?
Question 2. What different groups of people live in greater Khan-balik? How are they organized and distributed?
Question 3. Why do you think Marco Polo focuses on the issues that he describes?
Interpreting Visual Evidence
Analyze: Transmission of Religious Knowledge on pages 470-471, and answer these questions:
Question 1. Compare the various texts. What are the similarities and differences in terms of content, form, and decoration, and what do you think accounts for them?
Question 2. Consider the languages in which these texts are written. What role does translation seem to play in the transmission of these texts and the preservation of the ideas they contain?
Question 3. Given what you know from this chapter abut the Abbside caliphate, Tang China, Charlemagne's Europe, and the Vikings, what role do you think empires played in the preservation, or destruction, of religious texts?