... read carefully because you will be surprised how interesting his life was even though he was just a merchant. Marco was born in Venice in 1254, at that time Venice was probably the center of all the main trades in Europe. Marco Polo probably received his education from a typical merchant school but he wasn't poor at all his father and uncle, Niccolò and Maffeo Polo ... were jewel merchants probably the richest at that time, so don't mistake him for being a poor merchant. The brothers ... , Niccolò and Maffeo Polo left Venice in 1260 on a commercial venture to the Black Sea ports of Co...

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