Biography Of Marco Polo

Next is the evidence provided by the works from their methodology. For The Travels of Marco Polo, the evidence for Polo’s conclusions are his own experiences while in China. Therefore, Polo’s work provided Europe a more unfiltered and objective view of China in all its extravagance to Polo and later the Europeans. This unfiltered view point meant that Polo was inaccurate in some of his information. When describing Kublai Khan’s palace, Polo remarked how large the walls are and how extravagant and magnificent it was. The palace itself was in fact just an enclosed royal park used as an encampment. Polo’s observations and vocabulary used to describe the palace showed that European’s viewed China and what they did in awe, even when the Chinese were acting similar to the Europeans in many aspects.

First, in the background essay, it says he was attacked by pirates and attacked by many other peoples and still made it back to China with his whole crew. Another reason is in Doc D. It says He brought tribute to foreign lands and people. This created an excellent trading opportunity. Finally, Zheng He was skillful in communication. In Doc E, it tells about how he communicated with the other countries by displaying China’s power while still showing kindness to the distant peoples. Zheng He’s skill affected how china communicated with the other peoples of the world. He showed kindness by bringing tribute, while still showing China’s power by bringing an army of soldiers with him. He also escaped many attacks and lived to take more

He traveled along the Silk Road which led him to China. The Mongol ruler, Khubilai Khan, then took Polo into his court. Khubilai assigned one last task to Marco Polo before he could be free from his services at court, Marco was to escort a princess safely to her potential husband the Persian ruler Arghun. With the task at hand, they had to travel from Zaitun to Sumatra to Persia. When they arrived in Persia, they found out that Arghun was dead; so the princess was now appointed to marry Arghun’s son. Marco continued on his travels which led him to Greece, Constantinople, and Venice. Soon after arriving back in Venice, he was captured by the Genoans. During his imprisonment, Marco Polo met Rustichello and together they wrote “The Travels of Marco

a) Marco Polo (Italian adventurer) returned to Europe in 1295, telling of his journey in China. His book with descriptions of goods made him an indirect discoverer of the New World.

1. Marco Polo- A Venetian merchant and adventurer who traveled from Europe to Asia from 1271 to 1295. He traveled from Europe to Asia from 1271 to 1295 and remained in China for 17 years until he left to guide a Mongol princess to Persia. These travels are recorded in Il Milione, known in English as The Travels of Marco Polo that has influenced later merchants and travelers.

In 1271, Marco Polo’s father and uncle, both merchants from Europe, were requested to return to China for the second time by the Mongol Emperor, Kublai Khan. The purpose of the request made by the Great Khan (Kublai) was to bring back to the Mongol court some holy oil from Jerusalem and “a hundred men of learning, thoroughly acquainted with the principles of the Christian religion” (Polo 7) to convince the Mongols to convert to Christianity. Marco Polo joined his father and uncle for this second journey to the East. As part of this journey, Polo traveled throughout regions of the Middle East and Central Asia before reaching the final destination. Further, while working for Kublai Khan in China, he was sent on many inspection tours which allowed him to explore most of the provinces of China. In all the regions that were visited along the way, and more so in the case of the Mongol Empire, there was a distinct disparity in the culture as compared to Polo’s native land. Moreover, Marco Polo’s religious disposition towards Christianity set him apart from the people of the region –the Tartars—who , according to the Kublai Khan, where worshippers of “evil spirits” (Polo 7). These factors placed Marco Polo in the position of an “outsider” as defined by Hage, i.e. “someone who does not experience either socio-cultural or political belonging. It is someone whose mental and bodily dispositions have evolved somewhere else and thus feels culturally ‘out of place’.

Marco Polo was a Venetian merchant traveler who went on many voyages across Asia and Africa. On one of his travels to Asia, Marco met Kublai Khan and became good friends. His journey to Asia lasted 24 years, and when he arrived back home, he found out that his country was at war with Genoa. Polo then became a prisoner of war and wasn’t released until 1299. Upon his release, Polo became a wealthy merchant with a wife and two kids. Marco died in 1324 and was buried in the San Lorenzo Church.

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 Columbus' scientific calculations for his expedition and the explicit depictions of the luxury of Cipangu and Cathay, flawed though they were, created a strong motivation for Columbus. In the 12th of May 1492, Christopher Columbus, accompanied

I believe that Marco Polo did go to China because of all the evidence I have heard and seen. Marco Polo was born in the 1200s. He was born into a family tradesmen and his education was like a merchant’s. Around the age of 15, his father left on a journey for 9 years and during those years his mom dies. When he was 20 years old, he started his journey.

Roger Chillingworth could have chosen to kill Hester with the medicine in the cup he presented to her. This is why hester was heedful when she chose to drink the medicine. Roger’s truth was relative in this moment for hester did not know what his true intentions were, she could not be so naive as to think that Roger would not want revenge and would willingly cure her.

After about a three and a half year journey, Marco noted that the Polos arrived in the court of Kublai Khan, the conqueror of China. The Great Khan ruled a vast empire of prosperous cities that had richer goods, services, and technology than any place in Europe that Marco had ever seen (Freedman 6). Kublai Khan was the grandson of the infamous Genghis Khan, the fearless Mongol who swept across Asia and the Middle East generations earlier. When the Polos arrived in Shangdu (the capitol of Kublai Khan’s empire), the Mongol empire stretched from China, to Russia and Iraq; the empire was at the pinnacle of its existence (Polo 26). Marco stated that he soon rose to a position of power in Kublai Khan’s court, because Mublai Khan was pleased by Marco’s knowledge and logic. Marco endeavored on confidential missions to “learn about all kinds of different matters in the countries he visited, in order to satisfy the curiosity of the Great Khan” (Hart 35). The Polos accumulated great wealth in jewels and gold, thanks to the generosity of Kublai Khan; however, they eventually grew homesick and began their

Marco Polo has had a many successes on and off the waters of Asia. He was a strong, intellectual, and persistent many throughout his entire life. He accomplished many great goals and was plagued with many great sorrows. But, with his many great discoveries and influences all throughout Asia, Marco Polo may go down as the greatest explorer of all time. His maps and pathways through China are still being put to use today.

proven if Marco Polo himself ever traveled as far East as China) to travel freely to the Far

People inhabited towns and cities along the Silk Road because of the trade and steady resources. The soil was ideal for their agriculture products, cotton being a popular product. The inhabitants would sell their products to travelers. People also sold temporary housing for

Marco Polo was a merchant and a traveler. Marco Polo grew up in the republic of Venice, Italy. Marco Polo was Italian and was born between September 15 and 16, 1254. Marco Polo became the most famous traveler in Europe due to his 11,000 mile trip to China and back. He’s also famous for the book he wrote about his adventure.