Marco Polo
Marco Polo, the only Venetian to travel to China and return helped Venice become an important city. Marco Polo traveled to China with his father and uncle to help Kublai Kahn. He brought things back from China and developed new things from the trading. Venice changed in many ways after Marco Polo's travels. Marco Polo, like his father Niccolo and his uncle Maffeo was a traveler. His first experience of traveling came in 1271 when his father and Uncle took Marco on a journey with them. At this time Marco was only seventeen years old and inexperienced. The three of them traveled east from Venice to bring Kublai Kahn, who is in China, gifts from the pope. They first sailed to Acre, which is now in the area of Israel and Lebanon. Then they traveled overland to the top of the Persian Gulf. From there they then rode northward along the fringes of what is now Afghanistan. They passed through the province of Badakhshan in Northern Afghanistan, where according to Marco, "The mountains are so lofty that it is a hard day's work, from morning
The Polo's finally reached Kashgar and then traveling east they reached the Gobi desert. They took a route that was three hundred and eighty miles long and traveled this in 28 stages or days. This was an average of about thirteen to fourteen miles a day. These things that Marco Polo brought back The Polos were now on the border of China and close to Kublai Kahn. When Kahn heard of where they were, he sent men out to meet them. Forty days later they were escorted into Kahn's great palace in Peking. changed a lot of things the Venetians did. First of all, they were wasting lead, copper, and gold on making worthless metal coins. So Marco Polo introduced paper money taken from China instead of using heavy copper, lead and gold coins. He returned from this mission in six months. During this time Niccolo and Maffeo settled down and began lives in Peking. For the next seventeen years Marco was making a series of journeys for Kublai Kahn. He also kept careful records of what he saw. Marco Polo traveled many journeys in his lifetime. He h
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