Marco Polo was an Italian he lived from 1254-1324? He was an a trader and traveler and became famous for his books which gave Europeans their earliest information about Cathay now called China telling the truth or not he was suspected of lying for saying how big the Country was. Marco Polo had a father and uncle whose names were Niccolo and Matteo Polo. These brothers arrived at Sudak and went on to Surai on the Volga River where they traded for a year. Then civil war broke out between Barka and his cousin Hulagu, which made it impossible for Niccolo and Matteo to return along the same route as they came. Therefore they decided to make a route to avoid the war and found themselves stranded for 3 years at Bukara. They were Venetian merchants who owned their own shop and traveled a lot and sometimes took Marco Polo with them (e.g. they took him to China). In 1995 Korcula celebrated the 700th anniversary of Marco Polo return from China to Europe.
Marco Polo was brought up in a very well established family on the coast of Dalmatia his father and uncle had set up a trading out-post on the island of Curzola (just off the coast of Dalmatia). It is not certain whether Marco Polo was born there or the city of V
Marco went on many journeys with his father and uncle. In 1271 Marco went to China where he saw the gigantic port called Zatium. In China Marco’s father and uncle were military advisors to Kubli Khan. The Polos’ stayed in China until 1292. When they left the country they were escorts for a Mongol Princess. Travelling by sea to Iran they reached by a way of Sumtura, South India, India Ocean and the Persian Gulf. They then proceeded over land past Tabris in North Iran along the east coast of the Black Sea and past Constantinople. They arrived home in Venice in 1295 that was a stretch of 14 years of travelling and staying in China. Polo wrote a book on life in the far east and supposedly aroused Christopher Columbus interest in the Orient. That culminated in his exploration of America in 1492.
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