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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communities in the Mediterranean‚ Indian Ocean Basin‚ or along the Silk Roads. When I was traveling from China into the India Ocean Route‚ another fellow merchant of mine gave me a book and it detailed one of the greatest travelers in our time‚ Marco Polo. He was born in Italy and the whole family revolved of traders. His father‚ along with two brothers‚ moved about four years‚ living and trading everywhere
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Marco Polo’s book was more widely read. It was both believed and doubted. Some called him the ‘great liar.’ And some of what he said is made up or exaggerated. Marco spent seventeen years in the Orient serving the Great Khan‚ the ruler of the Mongols and Chinese. He easily learned new languages making him useful to the Mongol ruler. Later in life‚ Marco was taken prisoner during a war. He told the tale of his adventures to fellow prisoners and one of them wrote it down. His tale of the riches and
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Matt Barresi Mr. Brown World History Honors 2 December 2013 Zheng He versus Marco Polo Both Marco Polo and Zheng He were excellent world navigators in their time. However‚ Zheng He’s voyages and travels were much better and more important because they had much more of a profound impact on the world. His expeditions caused much more prominent change in China‚ directly and indirectly‚ than Marco Polo’s did in Western Europe. Zheng He’s voyages largely helped educate Ancient China as well as
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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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My two explorers are Marco Polo and Ponce De Leon. Marco Polo was one of the most famous westerner travelers. He traveled across Asia. He sailed south from Venice‚ Italy in the Mediterranean Sea. He also explored an area south of Beijing and the coast of china which is now Vietnam. Ponce de Leon sailed for Florida in the Americas. The reason why Marco Polo did his exploration was to find all kinds of different goods to trade. He did this because he was learning about trading goods. He
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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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Chona Gamboa‚ the Learning and Development Manger at that time. She called to inform me that I have a scheduled interview on the 15th. After the interview‚ I was told that to prepare my requirements since I will be joining the culinary interns of Marco Polo on the 21st of February. I was happy to hear the news since I waited for a few months before I could actually start my internship‚ but at the same time I was anxious about the people that I was going to work with and with the assigned task that
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The Mongol Empire has a very interesting history‚ they were like other nomadic people they lived on the high steppe lands in central Asia and by 1206 C.E. things had changed dramatically. The document “Marco Polo on the Mongol Military Tactics” brings a lot of questions and interest. For example what was the relationship between the Mongol’s environment and the establishment of their empire‚ why were the Mongols so successful and how did their background help them build their empire? It seems that
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Marco Polo‚ a Venetian traveler and merchant had an immense impact on how the renaissance shaped‚ and personified the values of the renaissance in numerous ways. Throughout Marco Polo’s travels he collected new ideas and inventions from China‚ and back to Italy. Thus‚ later on was used often during the renaissance. His travels also influenced many young explorers to embark on their own journeys. As Polo traveled through the Middle East he absorbed the sights and smells. When Kahn sent Marco off to
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