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03 December 2019
The Travels of Marco Polo
Thirteenth-century traveler, Marco Polo was the world’s supreme well-traveled voyager. The travels of Marco Polo chronicles was his voyage through Asia as an exceptional herald to Kublai Khan. Kublai Khan was a powerful and rich leader of the Mongol Empire. 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The journey was started at the age of seventeen by Marco Polo and he spent twenty years of his life trekking. Rustichello da Pisa relates the stories of the explorer’s travels that a large area of the land was traveled ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"tvpdA4t1","properties":{"formattedCitation":"{\\rtf (\\uc0\\u8220{}The Travels of Marco Polo Summary - ENotes.Com\\uc0\\u8221{})}","plainCitation":"(“The Travels of Marco Polo Summary - ENotes.Com”)"},"citationItems":[{"id":196,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/Hznayqvz/items/RS9V5KET"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/Hznayqvz/items/RS9V5KET"],"itemData":{"id":196,"type":"webpage","title":"The Travels of Marco Polo Summary - eNotes.com","container-title":"eNotes","abstract":"Complete summary of Marco Polo's The Travels of Marco Polo. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of The Travels of Marco Polo.","URL":"http://www.enotes.com/topics/travels-marco-polo","language":"en","accessed":{"date-parts":[["2019",12,3]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (“The Travels of Marco Polo Summary - ENotes.Com”). He also generated a portrait of the Mongolian Empire. He stated that the Mongolian Empire was a rich and wondrous land. The narrator said that Marco Polo explored along the Silk Road. Silk Road is known for the trade route that wound over Northern China, Mesopotamia, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"7HlJYrdK","properties":{"formattedCitation":"{\\rtf (\\uc0\\u8220{}The Travels of Marco Polo Summary - ENotes.Com\\uc0\\u8221{})}","plainCitation":"(“The Travels of Marco Polo Summary - ENotes.Com”)"},"citationItems":[{"id":196,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/Hznayqvz/items/RS9V5KET"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/Hznayqvz/items/RS9V5KET"],"itemData":{"id":196,"type":"webpage","title":"The Travels of Marco Polo Summary - eNotes.com","container-title":"eNotes","abstract":"Complete summary of Marco Polo's The Travels of Marco Polo. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of The Travels of Marco Polo.","URL":"http://www.enotes.com/topics/travels-marco-polo","language":"en","accessed":{"date-parts":[["2019",12,3]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (“The Travels of Marco Polo Summary - ENotes.Com”). The narrator said that Marco Polo has various experiences through this journey with the diverse civilizations of the Mongolian Empire. He stated that Marco Polo encountered societies and lands and had a personal understanding of a range of diverse cultures and customs.
The first trip was initiated in 1260 to the East. Merchandise for Constantinople was the cargo and the journey was voyaged by Maffeo Polo and Nicolo. The lands of the Tartar princes were ventured from this trip ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"iQ48Hxd6","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(August 30 and History)","plainCitation":"(August 30 and History)"},"citationItems":[{"id":"RIMQnydB/RqiTAe44","uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/Hznayqvz/items/9J4L4NU8"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/Hznayqvz/items/9J4L4NU8"],"itemData":{"id":"RIMQnydB/RqiTAe44","type":"webpage","title":"Marco Polo: Facts, Biography & Travels","container-title":"livescience.com","abstract":"The travels of Marco Polo from Venice to Asia opened up a whole new world to Europeans. 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Into the greatest and highest favor of the Kublai Khan, they both were ingratiated ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"t3m4DxZe","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Chang)","plainCitation":"(Chang)"},"citationItems":[{"id":194,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/Hznayqvz/items/4ZDY555D"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/Hznayqvz/items/4ZDY555D"],"itemData":{"id":194,"type":"article-journal","title":"Kublai Khan in the Eyes of Marco Polo","container-title":"European Review","page":"502-517","volume":"25","issue":"3","author":[{"family":"Chang","given":"Na"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2017"]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Chang). The Emperor asked them a few questions related to the Catholic faith during this stay. Kublai Khan asked them to return to Europe also, to the pope to refer to preachers to his distant land ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"5BJUHM4f","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Sparavigna)","plainCitation":"(Sparavigna)"},"citationItems":[{"id":193,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/Hznayqvz/items/Y88AS66R"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/Hznayqvz/items/Y88AS66R"],"itemData":{"id":193,"type":"article-journal","title":"The road to Xanadu in the Travels of Marco Polo","container-title":"PHILICA, Article","issue":"1097","author":[{"family":"Sparavigna","given":"Amelia Carolina"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2017"]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Sparavigna). The two Polos arrived in Venice in the year 1269 ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"WLjAM293","properties":{"formattedCitation":"{\\rtf ({\\i{}Marco Polo: Facts, Biography & Travels | Live Science})}","plainCitation":"(Marco Polo: Facts, Biography & Travels | Live Science)"},"citationItems":[{"id":783,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/p8kwKNoG/items/K5GPCWPR"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/p8kwKNoG/items/K5GPCWPR"],"itemData":{"id":783,"type":"webpage","title":"Marco Polo: Facts, Biography & Travels | Live Science","URL":"https://www.livescience.com/27513-marco-polo.html","accessed":{"date-parts":[["2019",12,4]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Marco Polo: Facts, Biography & Travels | Live Science). After reaching there the Polos came to know that Pope Clement is dead. In this year Nicolo polo’s wife also gave birth to a son, Marco Polo and she died ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"U4PwLKAJ","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Wittkower)","plainCitation":"(Wittkower)"},"citationItems":[{"id":"RIMQnydB/q2BB3Plc","uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/Hznayqvz/items/64YNWHDZ"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/Hznayqvz/items/64YNWHDZ"],"itemData":{"id":"RIMQnydB/q2BB3Plc","type":"chapter","title":"Marco Polo and the Pictorial Tradition of the Marvels of the East","container-title":"Medieval Ethnographies","publisher":"Routledge","page":"175-207","author":[{"family":"Wittkower","given":"Rudolf"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2017"]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Wittkower). At this time, there was a long delay in the new pope. The two Polos decided to return to Kublai Khan, at last. 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When they decided to leave in the year 1971, they asked the new pope to send missionaries to Kublai Khan and Gregory designated two priests with them ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"0VCNCjUN","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Yule)","plainCitation":"(Yule)"},"citationItems":[{"id":192,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/Hznayqvz/items/N4CGTTHC"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/Hznayqvz/items/N4CGTTHC"],"itemData":{"id":192,"type":"book","title":"The Travels of Marco Polo","publisher":"BoD–Books on Demand","volume":"2","ISBN":"3-7326-2070-0","author":[{"family":"Yule","given":"Henry"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2018"]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Yule). Because of fear of new and strange land, the priests turn back. 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The two Polos were attended by the Emperor graciously also, Kublai Khan appointed Marco one of his followers ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"b6Y8ca7L","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Wittkower)","plainCitation":"(Wittkower)"},"citationItems":[{"id":"RIMQnydB/q2BB3Plc","uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/Hznayqvz/items/64YNWHDZ"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/Hznayqvz/items/64YNWHDZ"],"itemData":{"id":"RIMQnydB/q2BB3Plc","type":"chapter","title":"Marco Polo and the Pictorial Tradition of the Marvels of the East","container-title":"Medieval Ethnographies","publisher":"Routledge","page":"175-207","author":[{"family":"Wittkower","given":"Rudolf"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2017"]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Wittkower). Marco polo was not intended to join the Kublai Khan however, it was a great experience at his court which forced his father and uncle to stay there and join his Empire ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"eE2VO0Sa","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(August 30 and History)","plainCitation":"(August 30 and History)"},"citationItems":[{"id":"RIMQnydB/RqiTAe44","uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/Hznayqvz/items/9J4L4NU8"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/Hznayqvz/items/9J4L4NU8"],"itemData":{"id":"RIMQnydB/RqiTAe44","type":"webpage","title":"Marco Polo: Facts, Biography & Travels","container-title":"livescience.com","abstract":"The travels of Marco Polo from Venice to Asia opened up a whole new world to Europeans. 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Kublai Khan sent Marco Polo in different missions and he learned four different languages in a very short time ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"8FWl7HQE","properties":{"formattedCitation":"{\\rtf (\\uc0\\u8220{}The Travels of Marco Polo Summary - ENotes.Com\\uc0\\u8221{})}","plainCitation":"(“The Travels of Marco Polo Summary - ENotes.Com”)"},"citationItems":[{"id":"RIMQnydB/Zbj8VZQu","uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/Hznayqvz/items/RS9V5KET"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/Hznayqvz/items/RS9V5KET"],"itemData":{"id":"RIMQnydB/Zbj8VZQu","type":"webpage","title":"The Travels of Marco Polo Summary - eNotes.com","container-title":"eNotes","abstract":"Complete summary of Marco Polo's The Travels of Marco Polo. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of The Travels of Marco Polo.","URL":"http://www.enotes.com/topics/travels-marco-polo","language":"en","accessed":{"date-parts":[["2019",12,3]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (“The Travels of Marco Polo Summary - ENotes.Com”). The Polos spent seventeen years in the court of Kublai Khan. They decided to leave for their native country after realizing that people of the emperor may harm them after the death of Kublai Khan therefore, they decided to leave to their country with wealth ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"gncWtCxQ","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Chang)","plainCitation":"(Chang)"},"citationItems":[{"id":194,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/Hznayqvz/items/4ZDY555D"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/Hznayqvz/items/4ZDY555D"],"itemData":{"id":194,"type":"article-journal","title":"Kublai Khan in the Eyes of Marco Polo","container-title":"European Review","page":"502-517","volume":"25","issue":"3","author":[{"family":"Chang","given":"Na"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2017"]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Chang). Kublai Khan was not agreed to part with the Polos however, they offered him to send barons from East Indies and the emperor agreed. Fourteen ships were prepared for the voyage ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"Eh7zZc21","properties":{"formattedCitation":"{\\rtf ({\\i{}Marco Polo: Facts, Biography & Travels | Live Science})}","plainCitation":"(Marco Polo: Facts, Biography & Travels | Live Science)"},"citationItems":[{"id":783,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/p8kwKNoG/items/K5GPCWPR"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/p8kwKNoG/items/K5GPCWPR"],"itemData":{"id":783,"type":"webpage","title":"Marco Polo: Facts, Biography & Travels | Live Science","URL":"https://www.livescience.com/27513-marco-polo.html","accessed":{"date-parts":[["2019",12,4]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Marco Polo: Facts, Biography & Travels | Live Science). The voyage arrived Java and the journey took three months. Further, eighteen months were required in order to reach the territory of King Argon. 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The Polos took the overland route to Trebizond. During this journey, they learned that great Kublai Khan was dead. The journey was passed safely in good health and possession of wealth and the Polos reached their homeland in the year 1295.
Marco remembers that Armenia was sectioned into two halves, the lesser and the greater. Major Armenia was the mountains and well known Mount Ararat, where Noah's ark finally came to rest was found ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"iGTNdzRr","properties":{"formattedCitation":"{\\rtf (\\uc0\\u8220{}The Travels of Marco Polo Summary - ENotes.Com\\uc0\\u8221{})}","plainCitation":"(“The Travels of Marco Polo Summary - ENotes.Com”)"},"citationItems":[{"id":"RIMQnydB/Zbj8VZQu","uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/Hznayqvz/items/RS9V5KET"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/Hznayqvz/items/RS9V5KET"],"itemData":{"id":"RIMQnydB/Zbj8VZQu","type":"webpage","title":"The Travels of Marco Polo Summary - eNotes.com","container-title":"eNotes","abstract":"Complete summary of Marco Polo's The Travels of Marco Polo. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of The Travels of Marco Polo.","URL":"http://www.enotes.com/topics/travels-marco-polo","language":"en","accessed":{"date-parts":[["2019",12,3]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (“The Travels of Marco Polo Summary - ENotes.Com”). He described that near this mount is a great oil fountain ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"DS1FIpiw","properties":{"formattedCitation":"{\\rtf ({\\i{}Marco Polo: Facts, Biography & Travels | Live Science})}","plainCitation":"(Marco Polo: Facts, Biography & Travels | Live Science)"},"citationItems":[{"id":783,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/p8kwKNoG/items/K5GPCWPR"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/p8kwKNoG/items/K5GPCWPR"],"itemData":{"id":783,"type":"webpage","title":"Marco Polo: Facts, Biography & Travels | Live Science","URL":"https://www.livescience.com/27513-marco-polo.html","accessed":{"date-parts":[["2019",12,4]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Marco Polo: Facts, Biography & Travels | Live Science). He stated that groups of camels pull away from the oil and castoff it for ointment as well as for heat and light. The book opened new ventures for the travelers and explorers to travel through the sea to explore Asian areas.
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Marco Polo was tolerant and curious and devoted to Kublai Khan. The Travels of the Marco Polo was Polo's account of his travels to China. He called it Cathay and Manji where Cathay is north China and Manji was south China. The Polos left China in the year 1290 or early 1291 and return to Venice in 1295. The period spent in prison in Genoa around 1298- 1299. The travels were sectioned into four parts. One part defined the lands of Central Asia and the Middle East encountered by Marco on his way to China ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"WDl2Jv1g","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(August 30 and History)","plainCitation":"(August 30 and History)"},"citationItems":[{"id":"RIMQnydB/RqiTAe44","uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/Hznayqvz/items/9J4L4NU8"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/Hznayqvz/items/9J4L4NU8"],"itemData":{"id":"RIMQnydB/RqiTAe44","type":"webpage","title":"Marco Polo: Facts, Biography & Travels","container-title":"livescience.com","abstract":"The travels of Marco Polo from Venice to Asia opened up a whole new world to Europeans. The story of his journey influenced mapmakers and inspired Christopher Columbus.","URL":"https://www.livescience.com/27513-marco-polo.html","title-short":"Marco Polo","language":"en","author":[{"family":"August 30","given":"Jessie Szalay-Live Science Contributor"},{"family":"History","given":"2017"}],"accessed":{"date-parts":[["2019",12,3]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (August 30 and History). The second part defined the court of Kublai Khan and China. The third book describes coastal regions of Sri Lanka, India, Southern Asia, and Japan. The fourth part described major wars among Mongols and regions of far north such as Russia. The descriptions of cannibals and spice-growers were also the part of the book ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"Lbikpl9F","properties":{"formattedCitation":"{\\rtf (\\uc0\\u8220{}The Travels of Marco Polo Summary - ENotes.Com\\uc0\\u8221{})}","plainCitation":"(“The Travels of Marco Polo Summary - ENotes.Com”)"},"citationItems":[{"id":"RIMQnydB/Zbj8VZQu","uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/Hznayqvz/items/RS9V5KET"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/Hznayqvz/items/RS9V5KET"],"itemData":{"id":"RIMQnydB/Zbj8VZQu","type":"webpage","title":"The Travels of Marco Polo Summary - eNotes.com","container-title":"eNotes","abstract":"Complete summary of Marco Polo's The Travels of Marco Polo. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of The Travels of Marco Polo.","URL":"http://www.enotes.com/topics/travels-marco-polo","language":"en","accessed":{"date-parts":[["2019",12,3]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (“The Travels of Marco Polo Summary - ENotes.Com”). The Travels of Marco polo was a tremendous book in history that has evaluated various civilizations of Asian China and Europe.
Legacy
The travel was an occasional widespread achievement in an age afore printing. The book comprised of various civilizations, lands, and customs of people. The court of Kublai Khan and the journey was described marvelously in the book. The cartography was delayed whereas the primary map in which few names were mentioned by the Polos, Catalan Atlas of Charles V was the prominent one. The book inspired various readers to travel to see. Christopher Columbus was inspired by the riches of the book and the description of the sea by Marco polo that he decided to travel to Asia by sea. The annotated copy of the polo's book was with Christopher Columbus in his belongings on the westward route. Christopher Columbus and various other travelers explored the voyages of Central Asia through the sea. The book has inspired numerous travelers and explorers to explore the sea and court of Kublai Khan.
Different Versions of the Book
Marco Polo traveled accompanied by his father and uncle. No known book was published by his father or uncle. The major sections of the book were four in number and it was translated into various languages particularly European languages in Marco Polo's time. The manuscripts of the original book were now lost however, various versions are available in different languages.
Old French immensely flavored with Italian was the oldest Polo manuscript in which F text was the basic original text. Other sources are R and Z whereas R was first printed in 1559. Old French manuscript was apprehended by the National Library Sweden around 1350. The travels of Marco Polo continued British captivation with ancient global connections and added to the expansion of emergent British Sinology.
The Travels of Marco Polo
The travels of Marco Polo chronicles were a voyage of Marco Polo through Asia as an exceptional herald to Kublai Khan and the book was narrated by Rustichello da Pisa. The book was an observation of routes, lands, people, civilizations, and research on history and wars by the eyes of Marco Polo. The travels of Marco Polo was not just a book, it was a complete detail of the court of great Kublai Khan, lands of Mongol empire and Central Asia. The Travels of Marco Polo was Polo's perspective on how he encountered foreign lands and people ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"vStNBzSV","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(August 30 and History)","plainCitation":"(August 30 and History)"},"citationItems":[{"id":200,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/Hznayqvz/items/9J4L4NU8"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/Hznayqvz/items/9J4L4NU8"],"itemData":{"id":200,"type":"webpage","title":"Marco Polo: Facts, Biography & Travels","container-title":"livescience.com","abstract":"The travels of Marco Polo from Venice to Asia opened up a whole new world to Europeans. The story of his journey influenced mapmakers and inspired Christopher Columbus.","URL":"https://www.livescience.com/27513-marco-polo.html","title-short":"Marco Polo","language":"en","author":[{"family":"August 30","given":"Jessie Szalay-Live Science Contributor"},{"family":"History","given":"2017"}],"accessed":{"date-parts":[["2019",12,3]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (August 30 and History). He described the ideas and shapes of various civilizations and their cultural backgrounds. He also evaluated the great Kublai Khan and his empire, trade and the admiration of the court. Various versions of the book were published and no known book was written by his father or uncle however, the original manuscript was lost. Marco Polo started his journey at the age of seventeen and spent his life traveling and trekking. The book has covered diverse events and various geographical areas of central Asia and Europe. The fauna and flora of the land were beautifully described in the book. The travels of Marco Polo not only covered his views and journey, but it also gave a new insight to readers to travel to the sea to explore lands and civilizations ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"shfBvdqC","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(August 30 and History)","plainCitation":"(August 30 and History)"},"citationItems":[{"id":200,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/Hznayqvz/items/9J4L4NU8"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/Hznayqvz/items/9J4L4NU8"],"itemData":{"id":200,"type":"webpage","title":"Marco Polo: Facts, Biography & Travels","container-title":"livescience.com","abstract":"The travels of Marco Polo from Venice to Asia opened up a whole new world to Europeans. The story of his journey influenced mapmakers and inspired Christopher Columbus.","URL":"https://www.livescience.com/27513-marco-polo.html","title-short":"Marco Polo","language":"en","author":[{"family":"August 30","given":"Jessie Szalay-Live Science Contributor"},{"family":"History","given":"2017"}],"accessed":{"date-parts":[["2019",12,3]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (August 30 and History). The travels of Marco Polo have described the traveling experiences of Central Asia, Mesopotamia and Northern China, also it encouraged people and societies to travel to these areas adding trade and economy to the country.
Marco Polo was commissioned by the court of Kublai khan to travel through the Empire and to explore areas of his land so that he can open new ventures for the travelers ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"mbBEsTBH","properties":{"formattedCitation":"{\\rtf (\\uc0\\u8220{}The Travels of Marco Polo Summary - ENotes.Com\\uc0\\u8221{})}","plainCitation":"(“The Travels of Marco Polo Summary - ENotes.Com”)"},"citationItems":[{"id":196,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/Hznayqvz/items/RS9V5KET"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/Hznayqvz/items/RS9V5KET"],"itemData":{"id":196,"type":"webpage","title":"The Travels of Marco Polo Summary - eNotes.com","container-title":"eNotes","abstract":"Complete summary of Marco Polo's The Travels of Marco Polo. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of The Travels of Marco Polo.","URL":"http://www.enotes.com/topics/travels-marco-polo","language":"en","accessed":{"date-parts":[["2019",12,3]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (“The Travels of Marco Polo Summary - ENotes.Com”). The mission of travels of the Marco polo was to explore the entire Empire and to survey the civilizations and customs of the societies, the fauna and flora and the geography of the land of Kublai Khan ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"aekSfdA9","properties":{"formattedCitation":"{\\rtf ({\\i{}Marco Polo: Facts, Biography & Travels | Live Science})}","plainCitation":"(Marco Polo: Facts, Biography & Travels | Live Science)"},"citationItems":[{"id":783,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/p8kwKNoG/items/K5GPCWPR"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/p8kwKNoG/items/K5GPCWPR"],"itemData":{"id":783,"type":"webpage","title":"Marco Polo: Facts, Biography & Travels | Live Science","URL":"https://www.livescience.com/27513-marco-polo.html","accessed":{"date-parts":[["2019",12,4]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Marco Polo: Facts, Biography & Travels | Live Science). The great Kublai Khan was really impressed by the courtesy and the obedience of the Polos, therefore, he decided to introduced them in his empire and opened the land for travelers and explorers ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"MjJjWCXV","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Sparavigna)","plainCitation":"(Sparavigna)"},"citationItems":[{"id":"RIMQnydB/nfRQkUKY","uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/Hznayqvz/items/Y88AS66R"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/Hznayqvz/items/Y88AS66R"],"itemData":{"id":"RIMQnydB/nfRQkUKY","type":"article-journal","title":"The road to Xanadu in the Travels of Marco Polo","container-title":"PHILICA, Article","issue":"1097","author":[{"family":"Sparavigna","given":"Amelia Carolina"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2017"]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Sparavigna). The travel of the Marco Polo was a historical book written by romance writer Rustichello da Pisa who served from books that he had perceived from Marco Polo ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"7JYaeznW","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Yule)","plainCitation":"(Yule)"},"citationItems":[{"id":192,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/Hznayqvz/items/N4CGTTHC"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/Hznayqvz/items/N4CGTTHC"],"itemData":{"id":192,"type":"book","title":"The Travels of Marco Polo","publisher":"BoD–Books on Demand","volume":"2","ISBN":"3-7326-2070-0","author":[{"family":"Yule","given":"Henry"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2018"]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Yule). They both were imprisoned together in Genoa. The book was transformed into various versions into different languages and it provides insight to many travelers to get directions for their traveling and voyages.
Chronicles
Year
Description
1254
Marco Polo born
1260
Merchandise for Constantinople was the cargo and the journey was voyaged by Maffeo Polo and Nicolo polo.
1269
The two Polos arrived in Venice
1271
The polos decided to leave their country
1291
Left China
1295
The Polos reached their homeland
1295
The Polos return to Venice
1298
The period spent in prison in Genoa
1298
Wrote hi book
1299
Marco released from prison
Works Cited
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