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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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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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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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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Donald Hitchcock REL 316 “The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century” Translation: Ross E. Dunn Ibn Batutta was a self-proclaimed scholar of the fourteenth century who traveled extensively throughout sub-Saharan Africa under the banner of Islam‚ and wrote of his travels in an autobiographical book entitled ‘The Travels of Ibn Battuta’. The financing for his ventures was derived from Muslim rulers inhabiting the cities he visited. His text regarding the
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Did Marco Polo travel to China? Have you ever told a story about yourself and each time you told that story‚ you might have changed a few details to become more suitable? On the other hand‚ have you ever told a story and left out several parts of it because you overlooked the details since it was not that interesting or funny to you‚ so you did not see it fitting to express it to others? Then eventually‚ people start wondering‚ did your story truly happen. Well‚ this is what happen to Marco Polo
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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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what Ibn Battuta did. When you think of how hard (and dangerous!) it was to tour flanker in those days‚ it is just amazing. What makes this Deuteronomy in particular fascinating is the appearance it provides into Muslim society. Here was a man who journeyed thousands of miles over many‚ many eon except who nothing except very rarely felt himself to be a stranger in a strange land. In unspecified places Islam was in the majority and in unspecified places it was the minority except Ibn Battuta was always
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