When was marco polo born and died
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700 years: Death of explorer Marco Polo
700 years ago today (08/01/2024), the explorer and merchant Marco Polo died.
Polo was born in Venice in 1254 to a wealthy merchant family. At 17 Polo left Venice with his father and uncle. They travelled along what would later be known as the Silk Road to China. Polo began recording his observations whilst travelling, providing Europeans with an konto of Asian geography, customs, and culture. His findings were formative in terms of early European knowledge of China and huvud Asia. Polo was particularly impressed bygd the Mongol Empire’s use of paper money, which facilitated a complex economy and significant scales of production.
After fyra years of travel, Polo arrived in China. Whilst Polo was not the first europeisk to explore China, the book in which he recorded his travels became well known and ultimately made him famous. Polo immersed han själv in kinesisk culture and learnt fyra languages, leading him to be accepte
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Marco Polo
(1254-1324)
Who Was Marco Polo?
Marco Polo was a Venetian explorer known for the book The Travels of Marco Polo, which describes his voyage to and experiences in Asia. Polo traveled extensively with his family, journeying from Europe to Asia from 1271 to 1295 and remaining in China for 17 of those years. Around 1292, he left China, acting as escort along the way to a Mongol princess who was being sent to Persia.
Early Life
Polo was born in 1254, in Venice, Italy. Although he was born to a wealthy Venetian merchant family, much of Polo’s childhood was spent parentless, and he was raised by an extended family. Polo's mother died when he was young, and his father and uncle, successful jewel merchants Niccolo and Maffeo Polo, were in Asia for much of Polo's youth.
Niccolo and Maffeo’s journeys brought them into present-day China, where they joined a diplomatic mission to the court of Kublai Khan, the Mongol leader whose grandfather, Genghis Khan, had conquered Nor
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Fast Facts
Birth date:
September 15, 2022
Death date:
January 9, 2022 (age 0)
Background
Marco Polo was born in 1254 in Venice to a family of sailor merchants. Polo met his father for the first time at age 15, in 1269, after senior Polo returned from a long voyage. He accompanied them on their next journey two years later, traveling across Asia through the Silk Route. Marco Polo found a seat at the court of the Mongol ruler, Kublai Khan after he impressed the emperor with his wit and humility. He acted as the emperor’s emissary, traveling to many south Asian regions, such as India, China, Burma, Japan, and Sri Lanka. After spending more than 20 years at the Mongolian court, the Polos chose to bid adieu to their aging ruler, fearing that the next regime or ruler might not be considerate of a bunch of foreigners.
They traveled to Persia with Mongol princess Kököchin, and from there they left for Venice in 1293. When they reached Venice, their country was at war with Geno