said‚ or was favored in the court of Kublai Khan‚ was another matter. There are three particular points that I want to point out why I think Marco Polo did get to China. At first Niccolo Polo and Matteo Polo‚ both father and uncle to Marco Polo‚ were merchants who set out into Asia in AD 1255‚ and supposed to reached Cambuluc (present day Beijing)‚ Kublai ’s capital in AD 1266. They returned to Europe‚ supposedly bearing a letter from Kublai Khan to the Pope to send some 200 representatives
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Topic 2: In the Prologue to The Travel of Marco Polo the author claims that his book is "an accurate record"�‚ free from any sort of fabrication"�. Is this Statement true? How reliable and useful is this book as a source of historical information (Support your answer with evidence from the primary sources)? Marco Polo has discovered much of central Asia. Over the years many manuscripts‚ evolve around the controversial issue‚ on whether Marco Polo did go to China. How accurate his account and reliability
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once lived. In addition‚ he has also inspired many other explorers to go out and see the world and witness all the rich culture Polo once experienced. It was first Polo’s father‚ Nicolo Polo and uncle‚ Maffeo who visited China and met with emperor Khan; who was the ruler of China at that time. He liked both of the explorers and decided to treat them with much honor. According to Manuel Komroff who wrote the book‚ The Travels of Marco Polo Revised from Marsden’s Translation‚ the emperor wanted them
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his home in Venice in 1271 to sail for a journey of a twenty four-year. A journey that took him where no European had been before. He went across the Middle East to Central Asia‚ Peking‚ and eventually to the palace of the strong Mongol King‚ Kublai Khan. Yet‚ when Marco returned home‚ he told the amazing stories to very few people. In the thirteenth century‚ European traders wanted to enlarge their business to new parts of the world. Among them were Marco‚ Marco’s father and uncle‚ who had already
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history. His story would become wildly popular and spark many imaginations when it was dictated to and written down by Rustichello da Pisa‚ in The Travels of Marco Polo (c.1300). Along with his father and uncle‚ Marco set out for the seat of Kublai Khan at Khanbaliq‚ Cathay. During the 17 years Marco was in Kublai’s service‚ he would travel throughout the empire doing the great Khan’s bidding. It is unclear when Marco made his way to the city of Hangzhou‚ the former capital of the defeated southern
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caravan route to China) and remained there for 3 years. Thereafter‚ in 1263‚ joining the Persian envoys‚ they made their way to visit the Mongol Emperor Kublai Khan in Shangdu (near present Beijing). To arrive there‚ they traveled the Silk Route via Samar Qand‚ the Northern Tibetan desert and the Mongolian Steppes. Upon their arrival‚ Kublai Khan commissioned them to return with 100 missionaries to convert his nation to Christianity in opposition to the threatening Islamic armies. Over the next 3 years
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family taught him to be a merchant. He learned how to read‚ write‚ calculate‚ and use foreign money. In 1269‚ Marco’s father and uncle‚ Niccolò and Maffeo‚ returned to Venice after visiting China. In China‚ they had met the Mongol conqueror Kublai Khan. The khan invited the Polos to return. He asked them to bring Christian scholars to explain the Christian religion to him. TRIP TO CHINA In 1271‚ Niccolò and Maffeo set out for China again. Marco‚ then 17 years old‚ joined his father and uncle for the
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During the thirteenth century‚ the Mongolian Empire dominated Eurasia through theconquests of Ghenis Khan‚ and the victories over vast regions of people and land allowed for theestablishment of trade routes across great distances. This merger of lands permitted the beginning of trade between the oriental and occidental; therefore‚ the Mongolian Empire became an agent for theunprecedented exchange of ideas‚ goods‚ and political gestures on an international scale. There weremultiple causes that lead
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Crusades. Due to this strong "Islamic curtain"‚ the Europeans were unaware of the existence of the Mongol empire gradually rising as one of the world superpowers until Marco Polo came back with fascinating stories after his service under the Great Khan.
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political figures as long as they complied with the Mongols. While in China no natives could be in the political system‚ instead they had foreign personal brought in. At one point Marco Polo was brought in as an administrator during the reign of Khubilai khan. In China the Mongols tore down the whole Chinese political structure and rebuilt it. However In Persia the Mongols just inserted themselves at the top of political structures. The Mongols in china took over the complete power of the political structure
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