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

By the time Marcostarted working with Kabulai, the Kahn had already started taking advantage of many Chinese discoveries and systems. Marco started to take notice of many these discoveries and brought many of them back with him to Venice later on. He went on many journeys for Kublai. Places like the Yunnan province, Tibet, province of Kaindu, Bangala, Yangchow, to name a few. The Kahn had a lot of praise for this man from Venice.

Seventeen years passed as Marco traveled for the Kahn. "Little is known about his father and uncle from that peroid. "They probably stayed busy growing rich in many ways" . But in 1291, the day arrived when all of the Polo's began dreaming of returning home.

From Tunocain, the Polo's went on to Sapurgan, then to Balkh, one of the oldest and once most beautiful cities in Asia. "Genghis Khan had slaughtered it's people and burned the city to the ground in 1222 and much of it was still in ruins" .

They entered a place in Persia overwhelmed with bandits known as "Karaunas". " Karaunas scoured the country and plunder everything in their reach" . For safety's sake, the Polo's joined up with a larger caravan to travel with through the region. However, the bandits still went after the large caravan and attacked it murdering many people and others were sold into slavery. Luckily, the Polo's escaped without any harm and continued their long journey.

Marco Polo was one of the most important people in the history of our world. He brought Asia to the rest of the world and introduced new trading markets. His legacy will live on forever. He didn't travel for popularity or conquest but to find to find out information and trade, which helped the people of Europe and Asia.

Marco said, " Our Venetian's having now resided many years at the imperial court, and in that time having realized considerable wealth, in jewels of value and gold, felt a strong desire to revisit their native country, and, however honored and caressed by the sovereign, this sentiment was ever predominant in their minds.

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