MARCO POLO

By Thanapol Kulphaisaltham (Time)

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 Hello, Im Marco Polo, the most famous
explorer you have ever known (Trust me).

As you all know,

Im one of the first and most famous Europeans
traveling to Asia during the middle edges.

I will tell you my story from now on, just focus on reading.
 Fun Facts First!
My father, Niccolo, and uncle, Maffeo, were a wealthy jewel merchants.
They met the Mongol prince, Kublai Khan, who asked them to go to the
Pope and request 100 European priests to come to China to teach.

My adventures didn't happen because of a planned trip, but by

accident. What I wrote in my book is that my father and uncle made a
successful trade agreement during their first year of travel and when
returning to China after two years, the brothers decided to take
seventeen year old me with them.

I uncovered China, to the Europeans. The silk road and everything it

used to all be a mystery but now its reality.

I am the one who inspired explorers such as Christopher Columbus!!!,

who discovered North America only because I hadgone to China.

The Polo was a Christian!!

 I was an Italian merchant adventurer
who traveled farther than any of my predecessors
during my 24 year journey along the Silk Road,
reaching China and Mongolia, where I become a
confidant of Kubai Khan.
I lived in the Earth around 1254-1324 who was a
Venetian merchant believed to have journeyed across
Asia at the height of the Mongol Empire. I first set out
at age 17 with my father and uncle, traveling overland
along what later became known as the Silk Road.
In 1254 I was born into a wealthy family.
Then, in 1260, My father and uncle (Niccol and
Maffeo Polo) traveled to the Black Sea, moving
onwards to Central Asia and joined a diplomatic
mission to the court of Kublai Khan, the Mongol ruler
of China under the Yuan, who asked them to persuade
the pope to explain Christianity.
In 1269, My father and uncle came back to Venice.
They set off again in 1271, but now accompanied by me
at age 17, we traveled 5600 miles to the east.
We reached Khans summer court in 1275. We in the
next 17 years live in the emperors land.
Fortunately, I was popular with the Mongol ruler and
was employed as an envoy that I can see more part of
China!
 We offered to accompany a Mongol princess who was to become the
consort of Arghun Khan in Persia later in 1292. The party sailed from a
southern Chinese , Ceylon (Sri Lanka), Southern India and the Persian Gulf.

After that, we travelled to Constantinople and Venice, and arrived home in 1295.

Unfortunately, this year (1298) I got captured in prison in the battle of

Curzola (between Venice and Genoa) by Genoese. While I was in the prison, my
stories attracted the attention of Rustichello, a romantic novelist writer from
Persia (lucky again). The book was so popular and being translated into many
languages, including The Million and The Travels of Marco Polo

Married with Donata Badoer in 1300.

Finally, in 1324 after I was released from the prison and returned home, I lived all
my life there and died on 8 January.
 If you not believe me, take a look at this map.
It shows where I have been for 70 years of my life.
 Things Traded
- I brought silk and gun powder!
Before I left for China, nobody inthe East knew about silk and gun powder,
so I brought the Chinese all this stuff.

-In China, noodles were originally made out of a cereal grass called millet.
While I was in China, I tried many different types of noodles and I liked the
taste and the texture, so when I left to go back to Venice with my family, I
brought back lots of noodles to share. Then, Italy took over the noodle, and
made it out of different substances such as flour. Those noodles are now
Pasta today!! No me, No Pastaa!!!
 The Travels of Marco Polo

I have not only special goods exchanged,

but also a thing beyond that.

Have you ever heard about the book

before????

Actually its already in my timeline.

Also, Columbus took a copy of my book

with him when he set off to find a new
route to the Orient!
-The Story is divided into four books.

-The books was written down by Rustichello de Pisa told from my

stories in 13th-century.

-The books describe my travels through Asia between 1276 and 1291,
and my experiences at the court of Kublai Khan.

-My book was known in Italy as the Book Million about miracles of
the world, or simple Million. The origin of this name is when I
returned from his travels and spole of the luxury of the court of the
great Khan, Marco Polo (me) frequently mentioned that the daily
income of the Khan was estimated between ten and fifteen million in
gold.

-It was also printed in French, Italian and Latin.

 THE END

I have not told the half of what I saw.

Marco Polo-