The Polo family were some of the first Europeans to meet and describe the great Mongol rulers of the time , like Kublai Khan and Barka Khan . But who were the Mongols, and what was the Mongol Empire ?
In the beginning , the Mongols were different groups of people who moved around Central Asia . They were men and women who rode form place to place to look for food for their animals. They lived in warm tents called gers which