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Marco Polo had spent much of the last 20 years travelling around the Asian continent in a remarkable series of journeys along the ancient route known as the Silk Road, and recently he had come into the employment of the Mongol Emperor of China, a man named Kublai Khan.
Traveling to Mongolia a century later. The Venetian explorer, Marco Polo noted, this peculiarity of Mongol, marriage laws, The marriage customs of tartars are as follows.
The Venetian explorer Marco Polo describes the remarkable functioning of this enormous piece of public infrastructure...From each city precede many roads and highways leading to a variety of provinces.