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Date: October 31, 2025
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he spoke italianese?
I was contemplating what language was used by Moses on the stone tablets, the commandments. Being raised as a prince of Egypt, some kind of Egyptian hieroglyphs are likely.
Unfortunately Marc Polo is a made up character
But how can we be CERTAIN that he wasn’t speaking Ultra-French?
Obviously he spoke English
If you search up the social hierarchy of the mongol empire, you’ll know that they had a VERY STRICT class system, and treated the chinese like complete slaves.
They restricted the hanchnese from owning any kind of knives, gathering in a group, and even made them get permission whenever they were using FIRE to cook.
Venetian is not Italian?
There are a lot of trade going on, polos info was most likely just second hand merchant information. His record got a ton of wrong information. There is also no record of him in China, which is kinda impossible given how he claim to be a friend of the yuan emperor and a high official.
Meanwhile I thought everyone in China spoke Venetian at the time. You learn something new every day.