Columbus sails west seeking the Great Khan
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- Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference pp. 131-136 · open book
After studying Marco Polo's account of his transcontinental travels two centuries earlier, in 1492 Christopher Columbus began his voyage to the land of the Great Khan. The Mongol Empires I l 5 BLANK PAGE B EYO N D T H E ME D I T E RRAN EAN Ottoman and Spanish Empires Although Mongols built a bigger empire than the Romans had, and in a shorter time, the khans did not create institutions that could keep the whole space together for very long.