Marco Polo was born in 1254, in Venice, Italy.
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in title, tags, annotations or urlMarco Polo - Journalist, Explorer - Biography.com - 0 views
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1271 to 1295.
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His book Il Milione describes his travels and experiences and influenced later adventurers and merchants.
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An Introduction to the Protestant Reformation | The Protestant Reformation | Khan Academy - 1 views
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The sale of indulgences was a practice where the church acknowledged a donation or other charitable work with a piece of paper (an indulgence), that certified that your soul would enter heaven more quickly by reducing your time in purgatory.
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Luther sparked the Reformation in 1517 by posting, at least according to tradition, his "95 Theses" on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany - these theses were a list of statements that expressed Luther's concerns about certain Church practices - largely the sale of indulgences, but they were based on Luther's deeper concerns with Church doctrine.
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but none of these efforts successfully challenged Church practice until Martin Luther's actions in the early 1500s.
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Daily Life, Kids, Toys, Bone Games - Mongols, the Felt Tent People, For Kids - 0 views
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Mongol Kids: From a very early age, kids were taught to respect their parents. They were taught survival skills - how to collect dry animal dung for firewood, how to milk cattle, how to use a bow and arrow, and how to cook and sew.
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Puzzles were popular. Games included archery, horse racing, wrestling, and guessing games.
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Society of the Mongol Empire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 1 views
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During the Mongol Empire there were two different groups of food, "white foods" and "brown foods"
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"White foods"
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were usually dairy products and were the main food source during the summer. The main part of their diet was "airag" or fermented mare’s milk, a food which is still widely drunk today.
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