Marco polo the explorer biography
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Marco Polo: The Early Years
Marco Polo was born around into a prosperous merchant family in the Italian city-state of Venice.
Marco polo the explorer biography
His father, Niccolò, and his uncle Maffeo had left the year before on a long-term trading expedition. As a result, he was raised by extended relatives following his mother’s death at a young age. Niccolò and Maffeo first spent about six years in Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey), which had been under Latin control since the Fourth Crusade of The two brothers then went to the port city of Soldaia (now Sudak, Ukraine), where they owned a house.
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Christopher Columbus purportedly sailed to the New World with a copy of Marco Polo’s “Travels” in tow. Thinking he would reach Asia and having no idea about the Mongol Empire’s collapse, Columbus marked up the book with notes in preparation for a meeting with Kublai Khan’s descendent.
The Byzantine re-conquest of Constantinople in , along with upheavals in the Mongol Empire, may have blocked the