Marco Polo and his travels through Asia

The Question I am asking in my essay is, “Why did Marco Polo go?” I think his reason for exploring new lands is not because he had dreams of conquest, but because he was in fact trying to find a new trading market.

Marco Polo was born in Venice, Italy in 1254. His father Niccolo was a prosperous merchant who imported luxury goods from Asia. When Marco was just six years old, his father sailed off to Istanbul(then called Constantinople) and didn’t come back for nine years. Marco’s mother died shortly after his 16th birthday, just before his father got back from his voyage. Two years later he set out again, this time taking his son.

Marco Polo was just 17 years old when he left Venice for the first time in his life . He would nearly be 42 years of age when he saw it again.

So the journey to Asia had begun. The first place the Polo’s reached was lesser Armenia where Marco had begun to observe new and different kinds of people. He was not always impressed. “In former times its gentry were esteemed expert and brave soldiers but at the present day great drinkers.”

From Lesser Armenia, the Polo’s traveled to Anatolia in Eastern Turkey (then called Turkomania). Here Marco marveled at th

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