so basically, we don't even get to see them removed.

Borgia (the Canal+) version, is also good.

I know Chabi, his wife was thought to be a Christian.

You are forgetting that Marco Polo was in China during the early Yuan dynasty and that he was mainly in the company of the Mongol Rulers. At the time there was still a distinction between the culture of the Mongol elite (who he had a lot of contact with) and the native Chinese (who he didn't have a lot of contact…