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- Includes rates from The Vacations of Marco Polo that identify Kublai Khan and some of the items Marco Polo saw, including rhinoceros, crocodiles, coal, and more.
- Clarifies how Marco Polo's travels influenced cartographers and following explorers, like Columbus.
"I've not told 50 % of what I saw." - Marco Polo A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential statistics, but how a lot of the forest is lost for the trees? In this particular series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of important women and men in the time it takes to complete a commute, while learning interesting facts long ignored or never known. Marco Polo (1254-1324) is an instantly recognizable name, and he's known for his travels, but it's safe to say that his affect and importance has been greatly overlooked in the nearly 700 years since he passed away. Given birth to in Venice, Marco Polo is at a fortuitous position to participate in the Mediterranean trade, but he was still a man when he went on the journey that could make him famous and greatly encourage the Age of Exploration. Though he was destined to be famous, Marco Polo was simply pursuing in the footsteps of his own family, and it's really assumed that he was already a teenager before he attained his father and uncle, who had been traveling to china and taiwan and who, corresponding to Marco Polo, possessed attained Kublai Khan, the famous grandson of Genghis Khan. They set off for Asia again a few years later, this time with Marco Polo, and they would not go back to Venice for 24 years. When they came back, that they had allegedly journeyed about 15,000 kilometers and brought back plenty enough of riches and treasure.
