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Marco polo- the explorer

Today we are going to discuss about a famous traveler in History. Traveling from Europe to Asia, one of the most famous explorers of the time, in the 12th century a merchant named Marco Polo, was an amazing adventure. Around in the year 1254, in Venice, capital of the Venetian Republic, Marco’s father, Niccolò Polo, left to travel to Asia with Marco Polo’s uncle, Maffeo Polo, and left Marco Polo’s mother who was about to give birth to a boy, that was going to embark on some really cool amazing adventure. After their journey to and from Asia they came to find Marco Polo’s mother dead, and she had left behind her son, who was fifteen years old, and named Marco Polo. After two years Niccolò Polo, Maffeo Polo and Marco Polo now at the age of seventeen set off to Asia on a series of travels recorded in a book called the ‘travels of Marco Polo’. The first travel was to china, but stopping by some destinations on their way, it took the Polo family about 4 years to travel to china. First they sailed to Acre; Acre known to locals as Akko or Akka, now a city in the coastal plain region of the Northern District of Israel. They stayed there for a few months and during that time they learned to speak with Archdeacon Teobaldo Visconti of Piacenza who happened to be a Pope. The three of them expressed their regret at the long lack of a pope, because on their previous trip to china they had received a letter from Kublai Khan to the Pope. That time they were disappointed to leave China, but got in return a 33 month vacation. The pope of Archdeacon entrusted them with letters for the Great Khan, inviting him to send his emissaries to Rome. The pope also sent two of his legates to travel with the Polo family to China. The Polo family continued their endless journey which seemed to be never ending until they reached china which was the territory of a great, powerful ruler Kublai Khan, in Shangdu today known as Cathay. The great, emperor, Kublai Khan was so impressed by Marco’s intelligence and humility, that he appointed him to serve as his foreign emissary to India and Burma. Later he was sent on many diplomatic missions throughout China and in Southeast Asia in which today is Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Vietnam. He did not only serve as a foreign emissary, but he also entrained Kublai Khan with stories and observations about the lands he saw during his mission. He lived in China for about 17 years. During these 17 years the Polo family has requested Kublai Khan if they could leave but refused to let them go, on their last request to go back home, Kublai Khan allowed them to go back home because they have served him for a very long time and that they did indeed deserve to go back home after all the honorable serving they did. So with the permission of the emperor of China the Polo family was allowed to go back home after 17 years. They had traveled almost 24,000 km and arrived in Venice in 1295, after 24 years away from home, with many riches and treasures. At this time Venice was at war and Marco Polo joined in the war. It is assumed that he was later caught by Genoans in a skirmish in 1296, off the Anatolian coast between Adana and the Gulf of Alexandretta. During his imprisonment, he spent much of the time dictating a detailed account of his travels to China to his cellmate, named Rustichello da Pisa, who wrote the famous book ‘The Travels of Marco Polo’. The book soon spread throughout Europe in manuscript form, and became known as The Travels of Marco Polo after his cellmate was released. This book was the book that told us about the past in the Renaissance. In that book he mentions observing the mountain sheep on the Pamir Plateau in Badakhshan [now northeastern Afghanistan]. Of course, the sheep weren't named after him in his lifetime. The book about his travels inspired many other young travelers such as Christopher Columbus and many more. Marco Polo was finally released in August 1299 from prison, and was on his way back home to Venice, where his father and uncle in the meantime, had purchased a large palazzo in the area named Contrada San Giovanni Crisostomo Marco and his uncle Maffeo financed other expeditions, but never set foot out of the Venetian provinces; they never traveled on the Silk Road and never travelled to Asia either only in Venice. Before his father Niccolò Polo passed away in 1 300 he got married to Donata Badoèr, who was the daughter of Vitale Badoèr, who also happened to be a merchant. They soon had three daughters. Later Marco Polo’s daughters got married. In addition to his native tongue, Polo wrote that he knew four languages. He never elaborated on which four they were, but from his writings, historians have surmised they were Mongolian, Persian, Arabic, and Turkish — not Chinese. Sadly in 1323, our adventure Marco Polo was confined to bed, due to an illness. On January 8, 1324, despite physicians' efforts to treat him, Marco Polo was on his deathbed and passed away.