Born in 1254 A.D‚ Marco Polo grew up with a Venetian family in a trading environment. Polo‚ a highly educated individual‚ lives on in history as one of the greatest explorers of the 13th and 14th century. He traversed the Far East while keeping a detailed account of everything he experienced. His enthusiasm towards traveling‚ inspired by his family‚ propelled him to the accomplishments scholars remember him for today. Scholars utilize many of his maps‚ textbooks‚ and history lessons around the world
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by trading goods with the Middle East. He was seventeen when his father and uncle took him on his first journey to China in 1271. Marco Polo travelled to China over the Silk Road which was an overland route to China. He worked for Kublai Khan‚ the Mongol Emperor‚ for seventeen years. He sailed home instead of going overland. Marco Polo brought back ivory‚ jade‚ jewels‚ porcelain‚ silk and also stories about the Chinese use of coal‚ money and compasses. Marco Polo became famous for his travels
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was ruled by foreign invaders‚ the Mongols (1271 1368) and the Manchus (1644 1912). The first Ming emperor‚ Chu Yuan chang‚ drove the Mongols from Peking in 1368. After providing China with nearly three centuries of relative peace‚ stability and prosperity‚ the Ming dynasty lost the capital city to a Manchu army in 1644. The Mongol Empire‚ which in its heyday included Central Asia‚ most of Russia and Persia as well as China‚ was founded by Genghis Khan. Mongol forces conquered Northern China in
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rank because the religion rejected social hierarchies. The Romans traded gold and silver for silk. The trading routes were often dangerous due to bandits and the harsh desert. The collapse of the Roman Empire and Han Dynasty caused the end of the Silk Road in this era. The Byzantine Empire picked up Silk Road after Western Rome collapsed. They learned the secret of making silk and traded with the Tang Dynasty. The Silk Roads spread Chinese inventions like gunpowder‚ the compass‚ and the printing
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They made one grand prince the leader and had him keep the other rulers in line. Mongol raids would consist of the burning of towns and crops to punish those who didn’t obey. Princes slowly gained loyalty from the Golden Horde and benefited from it. Mongols played a role in the development of Muscovy as a state and developed its road network‚ which increased trade profits for some Russian towns. “The steady flow of tribute
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purpose through it all. The main purpose of the Silk Road had been to deliver goods from place to place. Trade initially was completed using a barter system‚ so one area could get what it wanted by giving away the extras of what it had. Different empires could obtain resources that others were unable to produce. As wealth and the separation between classes became more prominent‚ luxury items were in much higher demand. What began as necessities and small leisurely goods‚ transformed into high end
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time and people with skills. When Genghis Khan died‚ the land that he had owned split up. The Mongols built highways which helped them in trading. They were also the first to use gunpowder‚ coal‚ and printing. 2.) With the death of Abu Said Bahatur Khan in 1335‚ the Mongol rule in Persia fell into political anarchy. As a result of unstable control and the Black Death‚ the Mongol dynasty collapsed. Mongols effected the development of Korea‚ Japan‚ and Vietnam by influencing them by their ways. One
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1) The Shapes of Human Communities 1. In 1500‚ the world had all different societies‚ gatherers and hunters to empires‚ but it was different 2. Paleolithic Persistence a) gathering and hunting societies (Paleolithic peoples) still existed throughout the world but they had changed over time b) b. had new & improved technologies and ideas‚ e.g.‚ outrigger canoes‚ fish hooks‚ etc (had not adopted agriculture) c) exchanged goods over hundreds of miles and developed
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roads were dangerous because no Empire or state had control of the land along the Silk roads allowing for bandits to live in unclaimed land. Later the borders of states grew with government to protect their borders and the safety of the roads. Then the fall of Rome made traveling along the dangerous again‚ later however the Byzantine still traded on the Silk Road. After the fall‚ the Mongols were conquering new land making it dangerous again. Later after the Mongols finished conquering the land
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of Rubruck composed a sequential and descriptive analysis of his experiences during his journey to the Mongolian empire in 1253 CE. His conquest took place primarily to affirm that Sartach Khan and the other Mongol Khans were Christian. Throughout his recordings he is repeatedly overwhelmed by the religious‚ cultural‚ linguistic‚ and political differences between the Mongolian Empire‚ and Western Europe. As a Franciscan friar‚ his humble circumstances pose a challenge as he proves to be unprepared
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