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I read an extensive article on Venice a few months back … could have been Frances Leader. Fascinating! Hope I saved the link.

One quick comment: as a goofy kid I loved swords, shields, the movies “El Cid” and “Spartacus.” There were Landmark books (remember those?) in our elementary school library. The one about Genghis Khan became my favorite biography. I read several more books on this topic over the years. The Indian scholar Abijit has posted some fascinating commentary.

Amazing fact from the article on Venice: Marco Polo’s Daddy was a Venetian agent, another intrepid traveler. The Mongols sacked lots of great destinations in Europe. The twin settlements of Buda and Pest astride the Danube, for example. Our daughter’s boyfriend from Hungary answered my question about it: “Oh yes, they depopulated the area several times.” Martha Stewardt has Mongol DNA ... part of her Polish ancestry. This liaison was not the outcome of a date (dinner and a movie) I would wager. Kiev was another favorite of the Mongols.

To the point: How did the Mongol army know where these population centers were located? Marco Polo’s Dad guided them! The bastard! The bastards! The interests of Venice served somehow. I’ll have to brush up on that.

When Venice’s power waned it went underground … never really went away. Influence to our world today to be understood. I will definitely revisit this subject.

Thank you for this post.

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Thanks a lot for your kind support, Celia!

I have a compendium post which provides links to all the articles I have written about how the Roman Empire did not fall but relocated and rebranded through Venice, Amsterdam and London. I have also predicted their next moves and plans.

https://francesleader.substack.com/p/black-nobility-101

I have been hearing from friends in London that the City is becoming a ghost town and this post will give everyone a surprise future destination for the international crime syndicate which imposes totalitarian rule upon the world from behind their many layers of veils and scapegoats.

https://francesleader.substack.com/p/united-kingdoms-death-spiral

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