Marco Polo
Wikidi home Author Category Marco Polo
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1254-09-15
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Marco Polo's account provides a unique picture of Asia in the thirteenth century.
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asia
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marco polo influenced paolo dal pozzo toscanelli
(influenced, Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli)
marco polo influenced martin behaim
(influenced, Martin Behaim)
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paolo dal pozzo toscanelli studied writings of marco polo
(Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli)
martin behaim a resource was marco polo
(Martin Behaim)
prince henry the navigator read account by marco polo
(Henry the Navigator)
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When Marco was around seventeen years old, he accompanied his father and uncle when they set off on a second journey to China and Kublai Khan's court.
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It took them three and half years to reach China and scholars are still trying to work out the route they took.
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They probably went via Tabriz (in what is now north Iran and was then the pearl capital of the world) across brigand-infested desert to the fertile plain full of date palms, orange groves and pomegranate trees which led to Hormuz on the Persian Gulf.
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1324-01-09
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