text: You're right, not show how I manage to completely missdate Marco Polo like that, I really should not try to argue from memory alone :P
  
  However what is undeniably a fact is that paper was brought to Europe by the Moors who had in turn gotten it from the Arabs who had gotten  it from the Chinese via long and elaborate trade networks. 
  It's quite ironic that one of the key technologies behind the spread of Christianity throughout Europe was brought to Europe by Muslims.