Hes a spook.
He had too many spook markers on him aka lucky coincidences.The only other even more famous venetian jew is Napoleon ofcourse.
I guess Marco Polo stories was a project to popularize/increase international maritime trading which Columbus was the biggest proper kickstart of them all.
Since Polo was a jew i guess we can indirectly see their influence and power in that period of time in the places where he "travelled".
At wiki we have: ‘During the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644), a Ming emperor conferred seven surnames upon the Jews, by which they are identifiable today: Ai (艾), Shi (石), Gao (高), Gan (甘), Jin (金), Li (李), Zhang (張), and Zhao (趙). Two of these, Jin and Shi, are the equivalent of common Jewish names in the west: Gold and Stone.’
And another paste:
https://semiticcontroversies.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-travels-of-marco-polo-and-jews-of.html One of the odd things about 'The Travels of Marco Polo' is that it is one of the first mentions we have of jews being resident in China and more specifically of the jewish community at Kaifeng, which had been the capital of the Song dynasty before it was moved to Hangzhou and then, with the Mongol conquest, to Beijing.
The jewish community in China probably descends from the jewish 'Radhanite' merchants of the silk road; (1) who were incidentally a big part of the early White slave trade (2) as recorded by Ibn-Kordadhbeh among others. (3) The first known synagogue in China was built circa 1163 AD, (4) but it is likely this is just the first place of worship we know about rather than the first one actually built.
It is worth noting that, as early as the ninth century, there were sizable jewish communities in the cities of Beijing, Canton, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Kaifeng and Ningbo. (5) The commonality between these cities is that they are either important port cities (Canton, Guangzhou and Ningbo) or capital cities (Kaifeng [early Song Dynasty], Hangzhou [later Song Dynasty] and Beijing [Yuan Dynasty (the Mongols)]), which suggests that jews were engaging in the infiltration of governmental power structures that has so marked them out historically (6) and was achieved to a significant extent by the time of the Ming Dynasty in the sixteenth century. (7)
So with all of that spoken, it kind of makes you think about the name LEE(and most probably Liu,Lie,Li,Leigh).Considering how many times it has popped up in anglo world, it makes you think that its just a transformation of the name Levi.I might be stretching it at this point but take it as a food for thought.
Hes a spook.
He had too many spook markers on him aka lucky coincidences.The only other even more famous venetian jew is Napoleon ofcourse.
I guess Marco Polo stories was a project to popularize/increase international maritime trading which Columbus was the biggest proper kickstart of them all.
Since Polo was a jew i guess we can indirectly see their influence and power in that period of time in the places where he "travelled".
At wiki we have: ‘During the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644), a Ming emperor conferred seven surnames upon the Jews, by which they are identifiable today: Ai (艾), Shi (石), Gao (高), Gan (甘), Jin (金), Li (李), Zhang (張), and Zhao (趙). Two of these, Jin and Shi, are the equivalent of common Jewish names in the west: Gold and Stone.’
And another paste:
https://semiticcontroversies.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-travels-of-marco-polo-and-jews-of.html One of the odd things about 'The Travels of Marco Polo' is that it is one of the first mentions we have of jews being resident in China and more specifically of the jewish community at Kaifeng, which had been the capital of the Song dynasty before it was moved to Hangzhou and then, with the Mongol conquest, to Beijing.
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