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Biography: Marco Polo (Italy-Venice, 1254-1324)

Figure 1.--European readers were entranced by Marco Polos accounts of his travels in Cathay.
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Here is a fanciful depiction of the Polos setting out on their journey. I am not sure who painted this or when, but would assume some time about 1310.

The Silk Road played a major role in Medieval history.

Marco Polo was the most famous Westerner to travel the Silk Road, reach China, and return. He was a boy when he began his remarable journey. Chinese goods were known to the West, but China itself was unknown and Polo's account was seemibly so fantastic that he was at first not believed.

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It is well he began as a boy. His journeys through Asia extended for 24 years. He traveled further and farther east than any of his predecessors. He not only traveled beyond Mongolia to the unknown realm of China, but he became a confidant of Emperor Kublai Khan (1214-1294).

After traveling throughout China he retuned to Venice