For centuries, the Catholic Church straddled the world of medieval Europe. Every king, queen, knight, serf and soldier lived and died within the embrace of the Catholic faith. The church was not ...

In some ways, therefore, knowledge went into reverse in medieval Europe. Much of the knowledge of the Greeks and Romans was lost and was replaced by superstition. Peasants turned to the priest or ...

Born in Venice in 1254, Polo traveled the Silk Road, a medieval trade route connecting Europe to Asia, between 1271-95, spending 17 of those years in China as a prominent figure in the flourishing ...