In the Middle Ages, a legend persisted among Europeans that there was a Christian ruler in Asia or Africa

who would come and join with European Christians to help fight the Muslims during the Crusades.

The only problem was that this distant Christian ruler didn't exist.

Yet while the ruler was a fable, the story was actually based on some facts.

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The origins of the Prester John's story go back well over a thousand years.

As Christianity spread across Europe, there were rumors of other Christian kingdoms far away in Asia.

Europeans certainly knew about Asia, but they didn't really know much about Asia.

Good information from the East traveled slowly and would pass through many hands.

If you remember way back to my episode on if the ancient Romans and Chinese knew about each other,

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