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Oct 16, 2021 · The opportunity of getting it all on paper came about purely by chance. Marco Polo had returned from his travels in his forties, in the last years of the 13th century, to find the city state of Venice at war with Genoa. The Genoese captured him, but he was in luck – sharing his prison cell was noted writer of romances Rustichello da Pisa, who ...
January 8, 1324. Venice, Republic of Venice. Marco Polo (September 15, 1254 – January 8, 1324) was a Venetian trader and explorer who, with his father Niccolò and his uncle Maffeo, was one of the first Europeans to travel the Silk Road to China (then called Cathay) and visit the Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, Kublai Khan (grandson of ...
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Aug 16, 2011 · Marco Polo (September 15, 1254 - January 9, 1324) was born to his father, Niccolo Polo, who was a wealthy merchant from Europe to the Eastern World. Marco learned about the trade from his father and his uncle Maffeo and would take this knowledge and apply it. He would expand his father's wealth with his travels to China and would end up as a ...
Map of Marco Polo's journey. In 1266 Venetian traders Niccolò and Maffeo Polo, the father and uncle of Marco Polo, were among the first Westerners to travel the Silk Road to China. Before the birth of Marco, they established trading posts in Constantinople, Sudak in the Crimea, and in a western part of the Mongol Empire. In 1266 the Polos ...
Mar 11, 2015 · Song Fan/Associated Press. By Kenan Christiansen. March 11, 2015. In 1269, Niccolò Polo returned home to Venice with his brother Maffeo, after an absence of 17 years trading with a confederation ...
One of their other brothers even owned a house in Sudak, a Venetian colony on the Crimean peninsula, which they visited before setting off across Asia. When Niccolo’s son and Maffeo’s nephew, Marco, came of age to learn the merchant’s trade, he also traveled with them to China. Marco also recorded his experiences in the East.
Sep 10, 2019 · September 10, 2019. • 15 min read. The world-famous explorer Marco Polo is credited with many things, but perhaps the greatest is compiling one of the world’s first best-selling travelogues ...
