Rabban Bar Sauma: Adventures of Mongol Marco Polo
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The Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series on Mongol History continues with a video on Rabban Bar Sauma, a famous Nestorian Turkic traveler from the Yuan empire who was sent to Europe by Kublai khan to build diplomatic ties with kings and popes. His travels mirrored the adventures of Marco Polo.
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Bar sauma is not turkic, he is Syriac
@@bskiez Think this was released 11 hours earlier for patreons of this channel, they have early access to new content.
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Nice video. Could you do one about the Voyage of the Glorioso?
Sir please make a video history of muawiya bin sufyan because Muslim historians are jealous against Ameer muawiya bin sufyan
This guy basically met every important person in his lifetime without flying. Great khan, Ilkhan, Pope, English and French king, Roman Emperor, and many other nobles.
The OG Forrest Gump
The stories told on this channel never cease to blow my mind. The only sour spot of this one is that he never did make it to Jerusalem.
@@mlee9734 People's of the past would see a 7 foot man and believe giants were real. Extremely rare, but not a giant at all. Though from their eyes, a giant absolutely.
@@mlee9734 Perception. People see what they expect to see.
@@georgebrantley776 Normal man is 5'5" (165 cm), big man is 7' (213 cm) -- that is almost 1/3 taller!
Wow. Nobody except sauma could claim to have met the khan, byzantine emperor, pope and the king of england and france in a lifetime without planes. Extraordinary. Although he never went back home, the distance between beijing and gascony is mind boggling and the guy was 50 when he left beijing which is considered old at that time.
Honestly I don't think anyone with planes can either.
@@LuisAldamiz Honestly restoring the Monghol Khanate and bringing back French royalty seems easier. the other 2 are still there.
Indeed Raymond Hernandez.
@@viorp5267
Well, no, there’s no King of England, but you can post up with the Queen.
@@ahzamrasheed1208----I've heard about him. He was very well traveled.
In case someone is interested, the naval battle Sauma witnessed was the Battle of the Counts, where the Aragonese under Roger of Lauria defeated a larger French navy, led by a number of counts, hence the name. Lauria actually used a tactic favoured by the Mongols: the feigned retreat. Once the pursuing French fleet broke formation, the Aragonese turned on them and flanked them, peppering their ships with the famed Catalan crossbowmen. The tide turned once the unreliable Genoese mercenaries fled, leaving their French paymasters to be surrounded. The Aragonese captured more than 40 ships, crippling their enemy's naval capability for the rest of the war. Sauma happened by chance to witness one of the decisive encounters in the war of the Sicilian Vespers.
@fernando ronaldo The feigned retreath was a staple of naval tactics. IE it had been used by the Venetians to destroy the Fatimid Fleet in the Battle of Jaffa in 1123, and by the Genoese to destroy the Pisan fleet at Meloria in 1284
@Oxtocoatl I am sure it was a sight to see. He is probably one of the few civilians to witness a naval battle back then.
Cool. Are you a fan of spanish history or something? Strange that you have this nahuatl name haha.
@@Nimai_Aquino not my real name but I can see how that comes off as funny, especially now, as the Fall of Tenochtitlan just turned 500 years. I'm just humble a history student, I live to look at old rocks and read about dead people.
@@Oxtocoatl13 One of the best things to do in life haha. Learning from the great man of the past teaches humility and a good pride at the same time.
This man travelled more than my diplomats in Total War.
Same same
Total war has diplomacy?
@@bvansenu if you're joking about how bad diplomacy is then lol, but otherwise the older total wars required a diplomat (an agent) in order to engage in diplomacy like trade deals, alliance etc.
It had diplomats in early titles thou
It's a good day when you learn about someone you never knew existed. My compliments to all those who made this video a reality.
@Travis Johnson How do you know the Earth is round? You can't see the curve!
Im going to make your day.
Hi, I exist. My life is pretty dull.
You now learned about me.
Amen bro!
Mongol Polo?
It's a simple spell, but quite unbreakable.
Mongol...
I mistook it for Marco then realized it was Mongol
Mongo Polo xD
Mongol Polo Shirt.
@@tyrannosauruscock Mongolian cotton? So soft.
His history is fascinating and his journey absolutely incredible. Especially in such a politically and religiously unique page of our History, between the time of the crusades and the almighty Khans and the time of the Hundred years wars and the Ottoman conquests, between the future Beijing and the land I was born in.
Great artwork and storytelling by the way!
The Church of the East is quite impressive. What begun in Assyria/Mesopotamia and spread across to China, Anatolia, Persia, the Arabian Peninsula and India. What was once the second largest church in the world is a remnant of the past with its successor the Assyrian Church of the East.
The number of its followers once reached 80 million
The Chaldean Church of the East and the Syriac Church are Rabban Bar Sauma's Successors as well.
Great video about a great (and sadly nearly unspoken of) explorer.
From Beijing to Bordeaux through Byzantium...
And back...
The fact his diary was lost for so long before being found. He was completely forgotten for how many hundreds of years?
It's mind boggling. So glad ancient people's wrote some things down.
I wonder if he ever thought we would appreciate his story this much. 😁
*you have to wonder...* if constructions like the hagia sophia invited men to come and learn?... what a fascinating structure that must have been at the time...
And still is today
Please do a video on the Church of the East/Nestorian Church. There used to be archbishops and cathedrals in Afghanistan, Central Asia and all the way to Mongolia between 6th and 13th centuries.
They expanded as far as Japan, amazing!
I love the Attila total war soundtrack in this video.
It’s like visiting every corner of Calradia…
And attending every fiest.
@@aleksapetrovic6519 impossible. King harlaus alone hosts atleast 12 each day.
@@oedipusrex353 the trick is to visit harlaus last
blame those damn guild master
You just use the Butter Road
I never knew there was so much traffic between the two sides of Eurasia, by word of mouth at least. The Mongols had heard of the king of England, wow.
This was great! I would love to see more content related to the History of the Church of the East! They certainly played major behind the scenes roles that critically impacted the course of history. Christoph Baumer’s book on The Church of the East is probably one of the best historical narratives on the subject.
yes
Ah, the reverse Marco Polo.
12:33 This dude is obviously a different Charles Martel from the one who won the Battle of Tours in 732.
Olop Ocram?
That Charles martel did what no crusaders or others could ever achieve.
@@rudman97 he defeat only a raiding muslim force
@@A_Shanto sure sure, just like the crusades were only a raiding Christian force. Whatever makes defeat seem less significant.
@@AlexC-ou4ju lol
And he's bringing his friend, 1000 Eyes on lookout
Excellent as always. Waiting for Ottoman-Habsburg wars still :p
Finally! Representation for the Church of the East! Please, consider a full episode of Christian contribution to the Islamic Golden Age.
@@maverick7291 Islamic golden age came due to collection of knowledge, different thinking and ideology, and peace and prosperity of the civilization. the west has that, the persian/middle east has this, the far east has other different thing; which resulting in a whole new finding. dont be so self entitle to believed everything originate from the west. ask yourself why the roman no longer in golden age of knowledge even with the so called knowledge in their hand.
islamic golden age end due to various factor; the destruction of center of knowledge Baghdad by Mongol, the change in thinking and ideology due to debate between conservative and the open thinkers, and the lost of peace and prosperity due to war, lost of ruler authority, decentralization and etc.
Wasn't the head of the House of Wisdom a Christian at one point? I think a Christian was also the Caliphs physician under the Abbasids.
@@maverick7291 ridiculous statement ever 🤣🤣
Islamic golden age hahahaha..... you mean the remnants of a shattered Persian empire right?
@@maverick7291 right, as if europe and christianity were cradles of enlightenment & tolerance during those times
Sorghaghtani Beki, Kublai Khan's mother was a Nestorian Christian.
Prester John's Daughter
Although tangential to Scotland, I always thought it would have been great if Braveheart (1995) had a scene where king Edward I of England, "the Longshanks" and "Hammer of Scots" had a brief meeting with Rabban Bar Sauma while away in France, to show what he was doing while his effeminate princely son was getting hammered by the Scots at Sterling Bridge (a battle which, by the way, should have featured a bridge instead of a flat open plain with pike tactics).
and should have featured soldiers in armour rather than kilts
Probably not : both Edward longshanks and Philippe the fair were both young men at this time. For instance, Isabelle - the daughter of Philippe the fair and wife to be of Edward's son - who is played by Sophie Marceau in "Braveheart" wasn't even born at the time of Bar Sauma visit. She was born about 10 years later.
@@elbentos7803 I realize the timeline is completely off but then again Braveheart completely disregards a historically accurate chronology of events considering how Isabella of France was literally a two year old when the Battle of Sterling Bridge took place in 1297. That merely scratches the surface of how inaccurate the film was, with far grosser falsehoods like the Scots being able to sack the city of York. The movie is clearly a historical fantasy, not even a loosely historical drama, so changing the time in which Edward I meets Rabban Bar Sauma seems like a minor offense if not a fitting inclusion so long as many other events barely make sense or simply defy established history.
Ok, now I'm interesting about hearing more about the Christian church of the East. That would be a great video idea.
Ya'll should do a video on the Saint Thomas Christians of India
Kings and Generals thank you for this video,please don' t forget to post more videos about
-Aristotle teaching Alexander the great
-Tengrism (tengri)
-Aristotle,Plato,Socrates wisdom and teachings
Amazing content as usual, concerning travelers it would be interesting to see the travels of Ibn Batuta and Ahmed ibn Fadlan.
Amazing how you guys were able to dig up some rare finds like this Rabban Bar Sauma. As always, fantastic work K&G team.
Thank you Kings and Generals.....a fascinating video and one of my favourites of recent times
Incredible story, thanks for sharing it!
Amazing story/journey!!!
Never heard of him.!!
Cheers again K&G 🙏🙏
Absolutely fascinating!!!
Thank you. Very interesting.
Nunca tinha ouvido falar sobre esses viajantes, gostei mto do vídeo. Parabéns
it's kind of amazing how the Turkish & Mongol peoples came seemingly out of nowhere to drastically change the course of human history with effects still visible today. i found your video of the Turkification of Anatolia specially illuminating in this regard.
It's funny how southAmerica demonizes Spain for doing the same with indians, it's like today's turkey blaming Turkmenistan for coming to Anatolia, completely ridiculous however latin american politicians use that speech in a daily basis to win over masses, and it sadly works, I pity them...
@@jacoborangetree2488 as a Colombian ... wow ... you clearly have zero idea what you are talking about. first of all most people kiss up to Spain & think of them as being more advanced & sophisticated which is very sad if anything. while there are decolonial movements across the continent only Bolivia has really implemented it into the country's political identity (in a good way) yet even there the issue is not about Spain at all but about the ruling capitalist class that essentially inherited the country from Spain.
@@PalWebTV actually what you are stating is not so far from my point of view and all I can tell you is what it reaches me from news and journals.. your politicians blaming Spain for your current situation is a sad whinging display meant to hide their fails. I don't consider myself higher or more sophisticated in any way, on the contrary I do respect latin america a lot since we share a lot of ties.. Never in history have I seen this kind of rejection for something that it's in your blood..again, could you imagine Spain's politicians blaming Italy for Rome's plunders over hispania? Well, that is what I see on the news from latin america on a daily basis.
@@LuisAldamiz @Luis Aldamiz I'm not here to start a ping pong party on who knows better about history however let me be specific about certain facts,first, spain wasn't castile until napoleon but the spanish empire instead. Several kings from charles V where already kings of all Spain and not the kingdom of castile, then philip II, the borbons and so on. I believe what you tried to say is that modern spain as we know it today was cooked during napoleon's times but whatever..Second, of course I know not all seljuk turks came out of turkmenistan but originated from the west xiongnu tribal confederation and then the whole khwarezm region however this one country Turkmenistán is the only one that bears that ancestry in its name and it worked perfect for my example.
Third, could you explain to me how turks who came to ravage, plunder, loot, kill and conquer Anatolia are any better to you than colonizing America? If you look in depth despite all black poison spurred by the netherlands against Spain, will see that Spain did not kill indigenuos people for the sake of doing it but integrated them culturally, socially and religiously..That policy is by far much better than that taken by other powers like England and there's living proof today, what race is the dominant in usa, Australia and canada? What is the one in latin america? No more questions..
Last, I would like to know also in what way is Spain hampering Venezuela's development when we harboured thousands of venezuelan refugees from Maduro's grip and all I can see are efforts from Spain to help overcome the regime, the only demon in that story is USA's blockade.
@@LuisAldamiz Oh shut up please. I come from a family that was nomadic till the 18. century. Turkey is not of homogeneous nature but highly diverse. Yörüks, as well as Turkmens that settled together with their subclans did not intermix with the local population and look a mix of Caucasian and Asian. Turks even say that I don't look Turkish to them, because of my differing looks, mainly almond eyes, pronounced cheekbones. People like us exist mainly in Central Anatolia. Being of Turkic heritage means that your ancestors were living on the steppe and had the same culture, history and customs and not that they belonged to any "race". Eastern Turkic people are genetically much more differing than the Western Turkic people, because the western ones have been intermixing with Scythians. Since the Xiong-nu, we have been intermixing with other nomads.
This is a wealth of information. I more than enjoyed it!!!
Bruh, they never visited Jerusalem…
so true , the whole point of the travel was not even reached
You could say the true City of Peace were the friends they made along the way.
Jerusalem was held by the Mamluks, who were constantly at war with the Mongols and the Christians Sauma was trying to unite. I guess that's the one door the Khan's passport won't open.
Great work guys ur animation is impressive and improving day by day
This might be one of your best video's. I love these world traveling video's
Thank you for this amazing content
Loving such vids. Soo fascinating
This is just wonderful 😊
Excellent documentary. I didn't know (shame on me), although I knew something of the Nestorians. An aside important theme: the earliest legends of Prester John to Europeans placed him as a Khan in central Asia or bordering China. It was nice to know about these men and personalities.
I always thought that presbyter John is nothing more than a medieval hoax. Turns out it could be more real to the medieval Europeans than I thought.
@@martinzihlmann822 Yes, it was a very strong legend for Europeans as a possible reality. First to eventually Asia, then to Abyssinia. All these parts, from Est Africa to Catay or China were the 5 Indies for Medieval Europeans. John II of Portugal started to reinforce Ethiopia even more, which is a wrong concept, but it remained generally . There is another more esoteric vision (until current today in some intellectual circles more linked to spirituality), such as Father John, King of the World or the Underworld, to restore Humanity, often linked to Saint John's Disciple.
Indeed a great journey of a great man
Stunning story I was unaware of and extremely well told.
Someone have to make a movie or a netflix series about this!
Fascinating video! Out of curiosity, should we start expecting K&G videos on Wednesdays and Fridays, or was this just a special week?
Thanks!
Another high quality content
Phenomenal video again
Nice to see the Nestorians getting some spotlight, I have read a wonderful book by a British author, Aubrey R Vine, which does a wonderful job explaining them! Unfortunately the book is rare and not cheap...
They still exist today in Northern Iraq in particular.
Sadly this reverse Marco Polo is so underrated.
Right? He came from the eastern edge of asia to almost the western edge of europe if he just went to spain. In comparison Polo's venice is more than a thousand kilometers closer to beijing
Fantastic video
That was immensely fascinating! Thank you for all that you do!
This is truly fascinating. His life story would make for an interesting movie or documentary mini series. :)
Never heard of him. He was great. THis was well done.
He was Uyghur.
he was born in Xinjiang
this video is amazing
Thank you, Sir
Kings and Generals, your videos are good.
Interesting the connection of Kublai Khans mother being a Christian. And the warm reception he received in Muslim and Orthodox lands!
Очень интересно, не ожидал! Вы супер 🙌
Great video
In the Marco Polo series, they showed Kublai to be very curious about Christians and their way of life.
Yeah that is true
Kublai's mother was a Christian. Therefore he should know a lot about Christianity--from the Nestorian view.
Quite a life! I can now learn more about Mongol history.
Even after learning, honestly, more history after graduating college than I ever did in school, it is amazing to find something else I didn't know about. US school spent more time on the Crusades than the Mongols, basically handwaving that the Mongols happened, empires and civilization wiped out, yadda yadda. Not even a mention they happened at the same time and that the Mongols and Crusaders interacted.
So impressed, what an oddisey!
Best History channel BAR none
as a Turkish person, we know a little about nestorians! more videos on topic pls!
Make a video about Ibn Batuta
They made a side trip first.
Amazing from Mongolia to the King 🤴 of England, the world 🌎 was so known 👏
Good video
Thank you , K&G .
Sorry I haven’t been active lately Kings 👍, great video as always
This one was great.
These videos are legit and exciting
This is, by far, my most favorite video on this channel! Thank the team of Kings and Generals!
P.S: Today, it's more like they're the team of Kings and Popes more since the Generals played no part at all.
It's always surprising how complicated, full of intrigues and interesting people ancient history was. Yeu currently practically nobody knows about these names or events.
Surely the best pun title is "Mongol Polo"?
Gold!
He was not Mongol.
Rabban is not Mongol name.
He was Uyghur man from Xinjiang from Early centuries.
was a traveller like Marco polo
Great Video My Friend
Sir you have the best voice 👌👍
I love the Maro Polo show! It's really worth watching, sadly, it's short and they cut more series :(
OMG the guy was well received EVERYWHERE! The guy was the best diplomat ever!
He was probably humble and respectful of local customs. A trait most tourists lack.
I love muslim history. There are always a lot of things to know about it. Brilliant video. We always appreciate your hard work and dedication towards these videos.
This was refreshing af
I read about this man in a history book on Eastern Christianity written by an Eastern Orthodox. From the name I assumed the author of the book was Russian. I was reared Catholic and in the Western World (Milwaukee, WI., USA), so, I found it a very interesting read covering people's Western Christian history books rarely do. Info about this man in online too.
This is great! One of the most interesting historical event that happened during 13th century when Mongols were ruling class! Keep up the good work!
The illustration of that church you show at the end of the video looks a lot like the Cathedral of the city of Ani (with a conical dome of a cylindrical drum), This being the 10th-11th century capital of Armenia which Rabban Bar Sauma visited and which you mention. Is that what it is supposed to be?
Church of the east spread Christianity to Asia hundreds of years before the European missionary’s!
中国人称其为，“列班扫马”We call him "Lieban Saoma" in Chinese
Ibn battuta next 😁
Intresting
Parte 2 plis
Please make a video on Delhi Sultanate (1206-1526)
A beautiful story! ✨👏
thank you for shedding light on one of the great men of the ancient church of the east, Im proud to belong to this church, today it is called the Assyrian church of East
"The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving"
- Johann wolfgang von Goethe
well never heard of him, nicely presented like always. one question remains though:
why is byzantium not purple 11:15 ? thats like showing europe and france 15:15 is not blue.
this anarchy cannot be tolerated...
Thank you for feeding our brains!
Can you make a video about Ottoman traveler Evliya Chelebi, too??
Good idea spacewalker !!
Kings and Generals please do videos about this explorers
-Evliya Çelebi
-Ibn Battuta
K&G have constant great tales of Human history! 👏
Total War Attila soundtrack in background ... Very fitting. Soundtrack in that game was very good.