The Rise of Marco Polo Marco Polo was a renaissance era Venetian merchant who has changed world travel in his time era and our era by not only exploring other parts of the world but also documenting his travels to china for all to read. I. Marco Polo A. Born in 1254‚ died in 1324‚ Venetian merchant‚ mother died while he was young‚ didn’t meet dad until he was 17‚ traveled china and documented his travels. B. Italy was separated into 4 regions‚ polo was from the east region of Venice
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ADVENTURES OF MARCO POLO DONE BY: ESHA‚ SHASHANK. HISTORY OF MARCO POLO • Marco Polo was born in 1254. • Before Marco was born‚ his father Niccolo Polo and his uncle Maffeo Polo had gone on a journey to china. • His aunt took care of him and taught him arithmetic or math and to read and write. • The business in the family was to become merchants and traders‚ so his aunt also taught him how to judge products and about foreign money. Making him like business and was his passion. • He died on January
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In her book did Marco Polo Go to China? (first published by Secker & Warburg‚ London‚ in 1995)‚ Dr Frances Wood claims that Marco did not go to China and that he probably never traveled much further than the family ’s trading post on the Black Sea and in Constantinople. (Rachewiltz) There are many parts of his accounts open to question and criticism. However‚ it was likely that he did get to China. As to whether he personally witnessed all that he said‚ or was favored in the court of Kublai Khan
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Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta both were explorers in the 13th century and although they had similarities‚ they were different in several ways. For example yes both traveled for a long period of time and picked up some of the same cultures but in different view points‚and Battuta was not imprisoned on his way back home. Or how Battuta started his journey with a purpose of visiting Mecca‚ like his religion requires him to do and Polo just took a Gap year to escape from the troubles at home. Marco Polo
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Did Marco Polo travel to China? Have you ever told a story about yourself and each time you told that story‚ you might have changed a few details to become more suitable? On the other hand‚ have you ever told a story and left out several parts of it because you overlooked the details since it was not that interesting or funny to you‚ so you did not see it fitting to express it to others? Then eventually‚ people start wondering‚ did your story truly happen. Well‚ this is what happen to Marco Polo
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Historical Recount: Marco Polo and his voyage to China. In 13th and 14th centuries‚ many people believed that Marco polo and his family have been one of the first Europeans to visit China with a famous book The Travels of Marco Polo that had been written by a writer called Rustichello. The most appealing thing about Marco Polo is that Marco and his father were not explores. Marco Polo was born in 1254 in Venice‚ Italy. He grew into a wealthy merchant family and had an education‚ which would have
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Medieval Europe – Marko Polo The Venetian Marco polo is not only one of the most renowned travellers in world history‚ but he and his book also generated more speculation than almost any other or volume in world literature. The travels and discoveries of Marco polo were well appreciated in the medieval times and of great significance. Marco Polo travelled to China and Mongolia and brought back many important useable goods that were then copied and used back in Medieval Europe. Marco Polo brought back many
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Marco Polo ( i/ˈmɑrkoʊ ˈpoʊloʊ/; Italian pronunciation: [ˈmarko ˈpɔːlo]; c.1254 – January 8–9‚ 1324)[1] was an Italian merchant traveler from the Republic of Venice[2][3] whose travels are recorded in Livres des merveilles du monde‚ a book which did much to introduce Europeans to Central Asia and China. He learned the mercantile trade from his father and uncle‚ Niccolò and Maffeo‚ who traveled through Asia‚ and apparently met Kublai Khan. In 1269‚ they returned to Venice to meet Marco for the first
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Marco Polo’s Journey In the late 13th century‚ a man named Marco Polo would embark on a journey around Eurasia that would be one of the greatest journeys ever made by any European at the time. In The Travels‚ Marco Polo shares his expedition with his father and his uncle as merchants trading goods as they moved along the Silk Road. They encountered many various providences that where large‚ small‚ and populated. In these towns Marco Polo studied and observed the different types of environments
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Marco Polo’s Travels formulated in Europe of the fourteenth and fifteenth century a new perception of the Eastern world‚ a world just as advanced and sophisticated as that of the West. Yet‚ another two centuries were needed for a significant change to take place; this was Christopher Columbus’ voyage. For Christopher Columbus‚ Marco Polo’s travelogue was a valuable and solid resource that contained the necessary details of the East. The geographical descriptions in his writing generated a basis for
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