My Hero's Journey Book Report

I was 15 when my father, and uncle Maffeo came back, and found out that Clement IV, the pope, had died. They stayed for two years. Waiting to see who the new pope would be, but we haven’t heard yet, so they decided to leave for the Mongol court, and they took me with them, and before we left, Teobaldo, a friend gave us letters to give to the Mongol emperor. A few days after being on our expedition, we heard that Teobaldo was elected pope as Gregory X. We went down to Acre to receive credentials, and two friars to help on our journey.

As we proceeded up to Laiazzo, the friars left. Then we continued down to Tabriz, and went through a desert, which many bandits inhabited, before we reached Hormuz by the Persian Gulf. From there, we took the land route towards the Mongol capital, rather than taking a sea route to India. After going through more desert land, we got to Balascian, where we stayed a year. I didn’t feel physically or mentally ready to continue our voyage. …show more content…
We finally got to the main route of the Silk Road. Where we were lead to Saciu, on the boarder of China. This was about where we left the caravan. We got to Shangdu, the capital of the Yuan dynasty, and to the Mongol court, where we met Kublai Khan, the Mongol emperor. We gave the sacred oil from Jerusalem, and the letters from our pope to Kublai Khan of who I would be in the service of for the next 17