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| the silk road marco polo: Marco Polo Michael Burgan, 2002 A biography of the thirteenth-century Venetian explorer whose book about his travels across Asia and work for Kubla Khan helped to launch the Age of Exploration. |
| the silk road marco polo: Marco Polo's Silk Road Marco Polo, 2011 In the late 1290s, an imprisoned Venetian merchant dictated an account of his amazing adventures in China. That book, The Travels of Marco Polo, was an instant success. Though scholars once derided Polo's tale, today's historians accept it as accurate. The original manuscripts are long lost, but now, for the first time, a modernized hybrid edition has been compiled from translations by William Marsden and Henry Yule. Comprising nearly 150 chapters, this superbly illustrated, silk-bound abridgement of this seminal work is a treasure worthy of its subject.--Publisher description. |
| the silk road marco polo: Marco Polo's Travels on Asia's Silk Road Cath Senker, 2008 How did Marco Polo manage to walk across all of Asia? Why did he become a favorite of fabled Mongol ruler Kublai Khan? Why was he not recognized on his return home? More than 700 years ago, merchants grew rich trading silks, spices, and glittering jewels between Europe and East Asia. Marco Polo decided to see for himself the mysterious lands of the East, and embarked on an expedition lasting 24 years. The account of his epic journey astounded people throughout Europe. Find out how Marco Polo braved bandits, sandstorms, mountains, pirates, and deadly diseases along the Silk Road and Spice Route. Discover how he became a spy for Kublai Khan, saw treasures beyond his dreams, brought riches home to Italy, and wrote one of the greatest travel books of all time. |
| the silk road marco polo: Marco Polo Lilya Pavlovic-Dear, Angela Bonavita, 2007 |
| the silk road marco polo: Marco Polo Jason Porterfield, 2016-07-15 Upon returning to his native Venice from a nearly 25-year journey through Asia, Marco Polo fueled the Western imagination with his tales about the splendors of the East. This lively biography follows Marco’s intrepid family as they navigate the spice stalls, caravansaries, and dangers that once populated the Silk Road and enter Kublai Khan’s Mongol court in China, where they served as advisors. Readers will learn about the Polos’ importance as cultural emissaries at a time of limited global exchange and how Marco’s account of their travels—whether fact or fiction—heralded the later golden age of exploration. |
| the silk road marco polo: The Last Secrets of the Silk Road Countess Alexandra Tolstoy, 2003 Four young Englishwomen retrace the ancient Silk Road--4,500 miles in eight months by horse and camel. |
| the silk road marco polo: Marco Polo Laurence Bergreen, 2007 In this authoritative biography of one of the most fascinating figures in world history, Marco Polos incredible odyssey--along the Silk Road and through all the fantastic circumstances of his life--is chronicled in sumptuous and illuminating detail. Illustrated. |
| the silk road marco polo: Did Marco Polo Go To China? Frances Wood, 2018-06-19 We all ?know? that Marco Polo went to China, served Ghengis Khan for many years, and returned to Italy with the recipes for pasta and ice cream. But Frances Wood, head of the Chinese Department at the British Library, argues that Marco Polo not only never went to China, he probably never even made it past the Black Sea, where his family conducted business as merchants.Marco Polo's travels from Venice to the exotic and distant East, and his epic book describing his extraordinary adventures, A Description of the World, ranks among the most famous and influential books ever published. In this fascinating piece of historical detection, marking the 700th anniversary of Polo's journey, Frances Wood questions whether Marco Polo ever reached the country he so vividly described. Why, in his romantic and seemingly detailed account, is there no mention of such fundamentals of Chinese life as tea, foot-binding, or even the Great Wall? Did he really bring back pasta and ice cream to Italy? And why, given China's extensive and even obsessive record-keeping, is there no mention of Marco Polo anywhere in the archives?Sure to spark controversy, Did Marco Polo Go to China? tries to solve these and other inconsistencies by carefully examining the Polo family history, Marco Polo's activities as a merchant, the preparation of his book, and the imperial Chinese records. The result is a lucid and readable look at medieval European and Chinese history, and the characters and events that shaped this extraordinary and enduring myth. |
| the silk road marco polo: The Return of Marco Polo's World Robert D. Kaplan, 2018 Drawing on decades of first-hand experience as a foreign correspondent and military embed for The Atlantic, Robert D. Kaplan makes a powerful, clear-eyed case for what timeless principles should shape America's role in the world: a respect for the limits of Western-style democracy; a delineation between American interests versus American values; an awareness of the psychological toll of warfare; a projection of military power via a strong navy; and more-- |
| the silk road marco polo: Marco Polo Alexander Zelenyj, 2006 Separates fact from myth using excerpts from Polo's actual journals and illustrations and photos to portray Polo himself and his impressions of the unique traditions and customs of the Mongols. |
| the silk road marco polo: The Marco Polo Expedition , 1988 |
| the silk road marco polo: Marco Polo and the Encounter of East and West Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Amilcare Iannucci, 2008-12-27 Few figures from history evoke such vivid Orientalist associations as Marco Polo, the Venetian merchant, explorer, and writer whose accounts of the Far East sparked literary and cultural imaginations. The essays in Marco Polo and the Encounter of East and West challenge what many scholars perceived to be an opposition of East and West in Polo's writings. These writers argue that Marco Polo's experiences along the Silk Road should instead be considered a fertile interaction of cultural exchange. The volume begins with detailed studies of Marco Polo's narrative in its many medieval forms (including French, Italian, and Latin versions). They place the text in its material and generic contexts, and situate Marco Polo's account within the conventions of travel literature and manuscript illumination. Other essays consider the appropriation of Marco Polo's narrative in adaptations, translation, and cinematic art. The concluding section presents historiographic and poetic accounts of the place of Marco Polo in the context of a global world literature. By considering the production and reception of The Travels, this collection lays the groundwork for new histories of world literature written from the perspective of cultural, economic, and linguistic exchange, rather than conquest and conflict. |
| the silk road marco polo: The Silk Road Frances Wood, 2002 This gorgeously illustrated oversized book brings the history and cultures of the Silk Road alive -- from its beginnings to the present day -- covering more than 5000 years. |
| the silk road marco polo: In the Footsteps of Marco Polo Denis Belliveau, Francis O'Donnell, 2008-10-07 Did Marco Polo reach China? This richly illustrated companion volume to the public television film chronicles the remarkable two-year expedition of explorers Denis Belliveau and Francis O'Donnell as they sought the answer to this controversial 700-year-old question. With Polo's book, The Travels of Marco Polo, as their guide, they journeyed over 25,000 miles becoming the first to retrace his entire path by land and sea without resorting to helicopters or airplanes. Surviving deadly skirmishes and capture in Afghanistan, they were the first Westerners in a generation to cross its ancient forgotten passageway to China, the Wakhan Corridor. Their camel caravan on the southern Silk Road encountered the deadly singing sands of the Taklamakan and Gobi deserts. In Sumatra, where Polo was stranded waiting for trade winds, they lived with the Mentawai tribes, whose culture has remained unchanged since the Bronze Age. They became among the first Americans granted visas to enter Iran, where Polo fulfilled an important mission for Kublai Khan. Accompanied by 200 stunning full-color photographs, the text provides a fascinating account of the lands and peoples the two hardy adventurers encountered during their perilous journey. The authors' experiences are remarkably similar to descriptions from Polo's account of his own travels and life. Laden with adventure, humor, diplomacy, history, and art, this book is compelling proof that travel is the enemy of bigotry—a truth that resonates from Marco Polo's time to our own. |
| the silk road marco polo: Last Secrets of the Silk Road Countess Alexandra Tolstoy, Ess A. Count Tolstoy, 2000-01-01 Four young Englishwomen retrace the ancient Silk Road - 4,500 miles in eight months by horse and camel. |
| the silk road marco polo: Xanadu John Man, 2010-10-31 **A SOURCE FOR MARCO POLO, A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES** Marco Polo's journey from Venice, through Europe and most of Asia, to the court of Kublai Khan in China is one of the most audacious in history. His account of his experiences, known simply as The Travels, uncovered an entirely new world of emperors and concubines, great buildings - 'stately pleasure domes' in Coleridge's dreaming - huge armies and imperial riches. His book shaped the West's understanding of China for hundreds of years. John Man travelled in Marco's footsteps to Xanadu, in search of the truth behind Marco's stories; to separate legend from fact. Drawing on his own journey, archaeology and archival study, John Man paints a vivid picture of the man behind the myth and the true story of the great court of Kublai Khan. |
| the silk road marco polo: Marco Polo Was in China Hans Ulrich Vogel, 2012-11-21 In Marco Polo was in China Hans Ulrich Vogel undertakes a thorough study of Yuan currencies, salts and revenues, by comparing Marco Polo manuscripts with Chinese sources and thus offering new evidence for the Venetian’s stay in Khubilai Khan’s empire. |
| the silk road marco polo: The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, Concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East Marco Polo, 1903 |
| the silk road marco polo: Who Was Marco Polo? Joan Holub, Who HQ, 2007-07-05 Marco Polo was seventeen when he set out for China . . . and forty-one when he came back! More than seven hundred years ago, Marco Polo traveled from the medieval city of Venice to the fabled kingdom of the great Kublai Khan, seeing new sights and riches that no Westerner had ever before witnessed. But did Marco Polo experience the things he wrote about . . . or was it all made-up? Young readers are presented with the facts in this entertaining, highly readable Who Was . . . ? biography with black-and-white artwork by John O?Brien. |
| the silk road marco polo: The Medieval Expansion of Europe J. R. S. Phillips, 1998 Between the year 1000 and the mid-14th century, several remarkable events unfolded as Europeans made contact with a very substantial part of the inhabited world, much of it never previously known or suspected to exist by them. Leif Ericsson and other Vikings discovered North America; European crusading armies established themselves in Syria and Palestine; Marco Polo and other Italian merchants, and missionaries such as John of Monte Corvino, penetrated the dominions of Mongolia and China; the Vivaldi brothers sought to open a sea route to India; Jaime Ferrer was lured by dreams of locating the source of West African gold; and the Atlantic island groups, the Canaries, Madeira, and the Azores, were all discovered. In this detailed survey, Phillips describes these exciting quests while also exploring their closely related myths and legends, all the while setting the stage for the even greater exploits of Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama, and their successors. For this new Clarendon Paperback edition, Phillips has added both an introduction and a bibliographical essay, the latter of which surveys recent work in what is becoming a thriving area of new research. |
| the silk road marco polo: On the Trail of Marco Polo Brady Fotheringham, 2002-07-31 In 1997, Brady Fotheringham set out to retrace part of this historic trail on a mountain bike. Three months, 3000 miles, and numerous arrests later, he arrived in New Delhi with a multitude of unforgettable experiences that travel readers and biking enthusiasts will delight in sharing. |
| the silk road marco polo: Marco Polo Anita Ganeri, Ganeri Watton, 1999 This book is written in the form of an interview. It probes into the life of Marco Polo and asks the sort of questions that children would want to ask whilst providing a wealth of background information. This biography tells the story of Marco Polo's epic journey along the Silk Road to the court of Kublai Khan in China.The stories of his travels opened up a world which people knew very little about, and inspired many great explorers to follow in his famous footsteps. In this book, the explorer and trader is asked for example, what his scariest moment was and what he liked best about China? It is one of a series which takes a personal look at the lives of historical figures and is illustrated with double spread artworks which make children feel they are seeing photographs from the character's lives. There are also maps of the routes the explorers took. |
| the silk road marco polo: China’s Communication of the Belt and Road Initiative Carolijn van Noort, 2021-08-20 This book examines how China’s international political communication of the Belt and Road Initiative comprises narratives about infrastructure and the Silk Road. By carefully selecting infrastructure modalities and Silk Road representations, it is argued that China’s aesthetic production of the Belt and Road Initiative advances China’s image as an infrastructure and standards-setting power, conjures up a historical continuation of friendly and cooperative relations, and forges China’s identity as good neighbor, good friend, and good partner. Using a multiple-case study approach, this book analyses China’s communication of the Second Belt and Road Forum, the Alternative North-South Road in Kyrgyzstan, the Standard Gauge Railway in Kenya, and the China-Maldives Friendship Bridge. Detailed literary analyses of the Travels of Marco Polo and the Travels of Ibn Battutah further elucidate China’s selective uses of history. Chapters highlight spatial, temporal, political, economic, technological, and perceptual modalities in infrastructure narratives, and reveal the composition of Silk Road narratives, contributing to key debates about Chinese discourse, media strategy and infrastructure communication. China’s Communication of the Belt and Road Initiative will appeal to students and scholars of politics, international relations, communication, and Asian studies globally. |
| the silk road marco polo: Kublai Khan John Man, 2012-03-31 In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure dome decree Kublai Khan lives on in the popular imagination thanks to these two lines of poetry by Coleridge. But the true story behind this legend is even more fantastic than the poem would have us believe. He inherited the second largest land empire in history from his grandfather, Genghis Khan. He promptly set about extending this into the biggest empire the world has ever seen, extending his rule from China to Iraq, from Siberia to Afghanistan. His personal domain covered sixty-percent of all Asia, and one-fifth of the world's land area. The West first learnt of this great Khan through the reports of Marco Polo. Kublai had not been born to rule, but had clawed his way to leadership, achieving power only in his 40s. He had inherited Genghis Khan's great dream of world domination. But unlike his grandfather he saw China and not Mongolia as the key to controlling power and turned Genghis' unwieldy empire into a federation. Using China's great wealth, coupled with his shrewd and subtle government, he created an empire that was the greatest since the fall of Rome, and shaped the modern world as we know it today. He gave China its modern-day borders and his legacy is that country's resurgence, and the superpower China of tomorrow. |
| the silk road marco polo: The Marco Polo Odyssey Harry Rutstein, 2008 The Marco Polo Odyssey tracks the fantastic journey of an intrepid adventurer who spent ten years following the 13,000 mile overland route of Marco Polo from Venice to Israel, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and finally crossing China to Beijing. It is an account of an exhilarating voyage of discovery and the three expeditions it took author Harry Rutstein to finally fulfill his dream. Using every means of travel available including camels, farm tractors, horses and goatskin rafts author Harry Rutstein became the first person known to have retraced Marco Polo s footsteps. The book chronicles his extraordinary adventures and authenticates the 13th century journey of the great explorer. Marco Polo s travels and subsequent bestselling book sparked the expansion of the mercantile empires of medieval Europe and gave birth to the modern age of globalization. Excerpts of Marco Polo s book, Description of the World, are woven into Harry s narrative, which add depth and perspective to his |
| the silk road marco polo: The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian Marco Polo, 1875 |
| the silk road marco polo: Lands of Lost Borders Kate Harris, 2018-01-30 NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE RBC TAYLOR PRIZE WINNER OF THE EDNA STAEBLER AWARD FOR CREATIVE NON-FICTION Every day on a bike trip is like the one before--but it is also completely different, or perhaps you are different, woken up in new ways by the mile. As a teenager, Kate Harris realized that the career she most craved--that of a generalist explorer, equal parts swashbuckler and philosopher--had gone extinct. From her small-town home in Ontario, it seemed as if Marco Polo, Magellan and their like had long ago mapped the whole earth. So she vowed to become a scientist and go to Mars. To pass the time before she could launch into outer space, Kate set off by bicycle down a short section of the fabled Silk Road with her childhood friend Mel Yule, then settled down to study at Oxford and MIT. Eventually the truth dawned on her: an explorer, in any day and age, is by definition the kind of person who refuses to live between the lines. And Harris had soared most fully out of bounds right here on Earth, travelling a bygone trading route on her bicycle. So she quit the laboratory and hit the Silk Road again with Mel, this time determined to bike it from the beginning to end. Like Rebecca Solnit and Pico Iyer before her, Kate Harris offers a travel narrative at once exuberant and meditative, wry and rapturous. Weaving adventure and deep reflection with the history of science and exploration, Lands of Lost Borders explores the nature of limits and the wildness of a world that, like the self and like the stars, can never be fully mapped. |
| the silk road marco polo: The Silk Road Kathy Ceceri, 2011-01-01 From Roman times until the Age of Exploration, the Silk Road carried goods and ideas across Central Asia between two major centers of civilization, the Mediterranean Sea and China. In The Silk Road: Explore the World’s Most Famous Trade Route, readers ages 9–12 will learn about the history, geography, culture, and people of the Silk Road region. Marco Polo was just one of many who set out on the Silk Road in search of wealth, power, or knowledge. These adventurers braved vast deserts, towering mountain peaks, warring tribes, and marauding bandits. Silk garments, wool rugs, and fine glass were the prizes for those who survived the trip. Activities using everyday materials bring the Silk Road to life. Young readers will see how ideas in math, science, religion, and art were spread by travelers along with the treasures they found. The Silk Road takes readers on an exciting, interactive adventure to a faraway place and celebrates its important role in human history and development. . |
| the silk road marco polo: Marco Polo and the Silk Road Janet Hardy-Gould, 2010 For a child in the great city of Venice in the thirteenth century, there could be nothing better than the stories of sailors. There were stories of strange animals, wonderful cities, sweet spices, and terrible wild deserts where a traveller could die. One young boy listened and waited, and dreamed. Perhaps one day his father and uncle would return. Perhaps he could travel with them to great markets in faraway places. For young Marco Polo, later the greatest traveller of his time, a dangerous, exciting world was waiting... --Back cover. |
| the silk road marco polo: Animals Marco Polo Saw Sandra Markle, 2009-04-01 A continuation of the Explorers series by award-winning author Sandra Markle, Animals Marco Polo Saw brings to life the amazing, exotic animals Marco Polo encountered during his explorations in Asia, how the animals sometimes affected the outcome of the journey, and even helped the explorer survive! |
| the silk road marco polo: On the Noodle Road Jen Lin-Liu, 2013-07-25 A food writer travels the Silk Road, immersing herself in a moveable feast of foods and cultures and discovering some surprising truths about commitment, independence, and love. As a newlywed traveling in Italy, Jen Lin-Liu was struck by culinary echoes of the delicacies she ate and cooked back in China, where she’d lived for more than a decade. Who really invented the noodle? she wondered, like many before her. But also: How had food and culture moved along the Silk Road, the ancient trade route linking Asia to Europe—and what could still be felt of those long-ago migrations? With her new husband’s blessing, she set out to discover the connections, both historical and personal, eating a path through western China and on into Central Asia, Iran, Turkey, and across the Mediterranean. The journey takes Lin-Liu into the private kitchens where the headscarves come off and women not only knead and simmer but also confess and confide. The thin rounds of dough stuffed with meat that are dumplings in Beijing evolve into manti in Turkey—their tiny size the measure of a bride’s worth—and end as tortellini in Italy. And as she stirs and samples, listening to the women talk about their lives and longings, Lin-Liu gains a new appreciation of her own marriage, learning to savor the sweetness of love freely chosen. |
| the silk road marco polo: The Travels of Marco Polo Marco Polo, 1926 |
| the silk road marco polo: The Silk Roads Vadime Elisseeff, 2000 A look at the cultural, or intercultural, exchange that took place in the Silk Roads and the role this has played in the shaping of cultures and civilizations. |
| the silk road marco polo: The Mongol Empire in World History Helen Sharon Hundley, 2016 The Mongol Empire in World History covers an exceptionally large physical landscape. This volume traces the creation of the Mongol Empire of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, an empire that at its greatest extent stretched from Eastern Europe and the Middle East in the west through Central Asia and Inner Asia to modern Korea and China in eastern Asia. Its impact on the peoples of Asia, the Middle East, and Europe are felt to this day. Written for non-experts, this book seeks to introduce general readers to the complex impact of the Mongol Empire on world history. While the military impact of the Mongols does appear in this volume, readers will come away with a greater appreciation of the broader impact of Mongol actions, including especially the impact on trade and the spread of ideas including technology and art, encouraged by the Mongol Empire. The Key Issues in Asian Studies series is the perfect place to present this topic to a wide reading public--Provided by publisher. |
| the silk road marco polo: The Travels of Marco Polo Marco Polo, 2008-10-21 Now in a handsome and newly revised hardcover edition: the extraordinary travelogue that has enthralled readers for more than seven centuries. Marco Polo’s vivid descriptions of the splendid cities and people he encountered on his journey along the Silk Road through the Middle East, South Asia, and China opened a window for his Western readers onto the fascinations of the East and continued to grow in popularity over the succeeding centuries. To a contemporary audience, his colorful stories—and above all, his breathtaking description of the court of the great Kublai Khan, Mongol emperor of China—offer dazzling portraits of worlds long gone. The classic Marsden and Wright translation of The Travels has been revised and updated by Peter Harris, with new notes, a bibliography, and an introduction by award-winning travel writer Colin Thubron. |
| the silk road marco polo: Marco Polo Laurence Bergreen, 2008-10-21 As the first European to travel extensively throughout Asia, Marco Polo was the earliest bridge between East and West. His famous journeys took him across the boundaries of the known world, along the dangerous Silk Road, and into the court of Kublai Kahn, where he won the trust of the most feared and reviled leader of his day. Polo introduced the cultural riches of China to Europe, spawning centuries of Western fascination with Asia. In this lively blend of history, biography, and travelogue, acclaimed author Laurence Bergreen separates myth from history, creating the most authoritative account yet of Polo's remarkable adventures. Exceptionally narrated and written with a discerning eye for detail, Marco Polo is as riveting as the life it describes. |
| the silk road marco polo: Marco Polo Clint Twist, 2011 Edition statement taken from back cover. |
| the silk road marco polo: The Adventures of Marco Polo Russell Freedman, 2006 A look at the life of Marco Polo. |
| the silk road marco polo: Silk Riders Jo Morgan, Gareth H. T. Morgan, John McCrystal, 2006-01-01 The Silk Rider trip was conceived after three biking trips of shorter duration - two in the Himalayas and one in the Andes. It was very clear that month-long trips are great but there is another level - a number of countries to navigate and borders to negotiate; a trip without any pre-arranged accommodation; a motorcycle journey without support vehicles so each rider is self-contained; and finally a theme to ride bikes by. That theme was In the footsteps of Marco Polo and it set a backdrop to this traverse of Eurasia. Marco (1254-1324) was born on Korcula, an island in the Adriatic off Split in Croatia. But he was raised in Venice and in 1271 set out with his two uncles for Cathay. The return journey took 24 years - outbound by land alone taking 3 years, in China for 17 years and then home by sea, dictating his book, The Travels of Marco Polo, from a Genoa prison cell 3 years later in 1298. As he lay on his deathbed he confessed, I have not told half of what I saw. Gareth, Jo and friends also started their trip in Venice and ended in Xanadu (Shangtu) - north-west of Beijing - where the summer palace of the Mongol (Tartar) leader Kublai Kan was located and where he met Marco Polo in 1275. Their timeframe (3 months) was a mere 1/12th of Marco's for the one-way land traverse and while most of it was along the route he took, they had a few diversions to take in points of interest - such as the dried-up Aral Sea. |
| the silk road marco polo: Silk Road Daneen Wardrop, 2018 In unbidden moments, Donata Polo, wife of Marco Polo, turns to perceive a Venice accelerating from Mediterranean port to global hub. In peripatetic visits to market she reflects upon the erotics and economics of interactions between continents East and West, recognizing camaraderie with people from other lands affected by new webs of trade. |
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"Marco Polo VR" is a great 3D Virtual Reality film project re-alised by Way Experience. The audience will have the extraordinary opportunity to un-dertake the journey of ‘The Travels of Marco Polo’ along the Silk Road alongside Marco Polo, from Venice to the Chinese Empire of Kublai Khan. The project is designed with a duration of 8-10 ...
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3 Jan 2024 · Marco Polo left Italy in the year 1271. He was 17 years old. He traveled on the Silk Road that goes across Europe and Asia. He saw many new things on this road. Many people traveled it to buy and sell silk and other goods. It was a difficult road to travel on, but Marco felt confident. He was on the Silk Road for three years.
Cultures and civilizations; The Silk and spice routes; 1994 - UNESCO
Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta, both famous travellers on the Silk and Soice Routes, visited it. An illustration from a 1 5th Century edition o/ Natural History byPliny the Elder (23-79 CE). This work is an important source of information about the trade routes of thistime (seepage 36). T View of the harbour at Muscat in Oman, one of the ports to ...
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Marco Polo (1254-1324) was born in Venice, an Italian city-state, to a powerful merchant family with extensive trade contacts. Marco Polo had the standard education for a young gentleman of his time—knowledge of classical authors and the basic beliefs of the Catholic church, a good grasp of French and Italian, and skills in accounting.
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like Marco Polo and Xuanzang, also followed, the Silk Road. The term “Silk Road” is perhaps one of the most evocative terms for any communication network in human history, instantly recognized by most and vividly associated with mighty mountains, endless deserts and hardy camels laden with exotic goods.
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Marco Polo, had 12,000 guardsmen, rotat- ing on duty in units of 3000). These leaders had both imperial and personal interests. The imperial interest, which was shared by the commoners, was Chinggis Qan's project of world-conquest. This project developed from Chinggis' un- derstanding of nomad society and culture,
Silk Road 2.0 - Atlantic Council
Cover art credit: Marco Polo’s caravan, from the Catalan Atlas, ca. 1375 This report is written and published in accordance with the Atlantic Council Policy on Intellectual ... SILK ROAD 2.0: US STRATEGY TOWARD CHINA’S BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE 3 L aunched in 2013 by China’s President Xi Jinping, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI or
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The most famous Silk Road traveler of all, Marco Polo, went from Venice to Beijing in the late 13th century. When he returned to Italy, after a journey that lasted 24 years, he wrote a book that inspired many other Europeans, like Christopher Columbus, to want to travel to China too. One year after Marco Polo died, Muhammad Ibn Batuta
Premodern Travel in World History - Neocities
From Herodotus and Roman tourists, to the establishment of the Silk Road, to an epic trek from China to India in the seventh century, to Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta, through the first speculations on space travel, Premodern Travel in World History provides an overview of long-distance travel in Afro-Eurasia from around 400 BCE to 1500.
How the Silk Road Influenced the Food You Eat
The Silk Road was the largest commerce network of the ancient world; it ... explorers like Marco Polo, Alexander von Humboldt, Sven Hedin, Aurel Stein, Nikolay Przhevalsky, Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov, Owen Lattimore, and hundreds of thousands …
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Significant People – Marco Polo Marco Polo was an Italian merchant, explorer, and writer who travelled through Asia along the Silk Road between 1271 and 1295. He is best known for his accomplishments as a world traveller and pioneer in expanding trade routes in Asia, including what is now called the Silk Road.
Marco Polo and the Reopening of the Ancient Silk Road
Marco Polo and the Reopening of the Ancient Silk Road Directions: Read about the Silk Road and answer the questions on the back. The Silk Road The Silk Road was not really just one road. There were many roads along the general route between China and Europe. These routes connected the East and West both geographically and culturally,
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first, their travel along the famed Silk Road to China; second, Marco’s travels throughout Kublai Khan’s empire as his special emissary (17 years); and third, the Polos’ return voyage to Venice as escorts for a Mongol princess to the Persian court. Marco Polo will be put back into historical context (what was the world like in the 13th
From Kashgar to Xanadu in the Travels of Marco Polo - Zenodo
Figure 7: Detail of the road from Sindaciu to Xanadu, made by means of the fundamental help of Google Earth and Wikimapia. In the travel to reach Xanadu, Marco Polo followed a branch of the Silk Road. The Silk Road consisted of several routes. From the ancient commercial centers of China, the overland intercontinental Silk Road
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The Silk Road was the world’s first superhighway. Not literally a single road, it consisted of a network of trade routes connecting China with Central Asia and ... • 1260-1295- Marco Polo travels along the Silk Road • 1400s- Sea routes develop between Europe and …
The Silk roads: highways of culture and commerce; 2000 - UNESCO
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Exploration by land; Silk and spice routes series; 1993 - UNESCO
During the Thirteenth and early Fourteenth Centuries, the Silk Route became increasingly popularwith European traders. Marco Polo records that Italian merchants had brought ships overland along the Silk Route to the Caspian Sea, and were using them to trade along its shores. In 1340, another enterprising trader, Francesco Pegolotti,
The Silk Road: Introduction - Scarsdale Public Schools
The Silk Road wasn’t a single road but was actually a series of roads and routes that ... mentioned Pax Mongolia when Marco Polo made his famous round trip at the end of the 13th century, and returned to tell his tales of ancient cities in the sand, of nomad kings in
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Marco Polo travels along the Silk Road. Sea routes develop between Europe and Asia; the Silk Road declines. This page may be reproduced for classroom use . Ancient Silk Roads Mini-Q Hook Exercise: Traveling the Silk Road In this Mini-Q you will examine several documents and then write five journal entries in the
The ‘Silk Road’: Historical Perspectives and Modern Constructions
2 Tamra Chin, “The Invention of the Silk Road, 1877”, Critical Inquiry, 40, No. 1 (Autumn 2013): 194–219, (The University of Chicago Press). 3 Peter Hopkirk, Foreign Devils on the Silk Road (John Murray, 1980), 14–17. 4 Xinru Liu, The Silk Road in World History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), 11. The Silk Road
Tracing Behçet’s disease origins along the Silk Road: an ...
West caravan routes traced by Marco Polo (17). Epidemiological data (1, 16) indeed suggest that BD hypotheti-cal risk variants might have emerged somewhere along these trade routes and would have migrated in parallel with ancestry components typical of Silk Road-related groups during popu-lation movements historically occurred
Silk Road 2.0 - JSTOR
Silk Road 2.0: US Strategy toward China’s Belt and Road Initiative. in infrastructure projects including railways and power grids in central, west, and southern Asia, as well as Africa and Europe. ... Cover art credit: Marco Polo’s caravan, from the Catalan Atlas, ca. 1375 This report is written and published in accordance with the Atlantic ...
Little-Known Markets That Could Make You Rich: Secrets of the Silk Road ...
The Silk Road is an extensive interconnected network of trade routes across the Asian continent connecting East, South, and Western Asia with the Mediterranean world, including North ... Buddhism traveled from India to China by the Silk Road. Marco Polo was probably the most famous Westerner to travel the Silk Road routes. He spent 24 years ...
Following Marco Polo’s Dream
From the time of Marco Polo’s journey to the East, Japan has had an important place in the Western imagination. This paper will consider the visual record that Marco Polo ... They travelled east along what we now know as the Silk Road. In China, Marco met Kublai Khan, the ruler of the Mongol Empire. Marco spent many years working near Kublai ...
China's Southwestern Silk Road in World History - UNC Greensboro
Marco Polo himself wrote of his travels along the spur of this route into Tibet following the Mongol conquest of the Dali kingdom of Yunnan in the early 13 th century. 3 Moreover, the Southwestern Silk Road has remained relevant even through the present day.
Silk Road And Marco Polo - myms.wcbi.com
Marco Polo's Silk Road Marco Polo,2011 In the late 1290s, an imprisoned Venetian merchant dictated an account of his amazing adventures in China. That book, The Travels of Marco Polo, was an instant success. Though scholars once derided Polo's tale, today's historians accept it as accurate. The original manuscripts are long lost, but now, for ...
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silk-road-and-marco-polo 2 Downloaded from www1.goramblers.org on 2019-12-01 by guest The Travels of Marco Polo Marco Polo 1845 Macro Polo Kalyani Mookherji 2021-01-01 Marco Polo (1254-1324) was an Italian voyager and
Marco Polo And Silk Road - myms.wcbi.com
Marco Polo's Silk Road Marco Polo,2011 In the late 1290s, an imprisoned Venetian merchant dictated an account of his amazing adventures in China. That book, The Travels of Marco Polo, was an instant success. Though scholars once derided Polo's tale, today's historians accept it as accurate. The original manuscripts are long lost, but now, for ...
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the Silk Road. Marco Polo was one of the first Europeans to travel into China. 1254-1324 The 'Silk Road' was a major trade route. Southampton and Liverpool are ports. The UK imports more from China than any other country in the world. Th.s the Fair Trade Symbol. FAIRTRAOE
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the time of Marco Polo, the Silk Road travellers used to come across different timing systems: temporal and equinoctial. The first was a formal system according to which synchronization of social activities was performed, while the other was used only by scientists. Therefore, there were various sundial constructions of
Did Richthofen Really Coin “the Silk Road”? - American University
2 Feb 2020 · Silk Road” (Seidenstrasse) on five separate occa sions (1858: 120, 413, 421, 719, 794). Unlike Mack, however, who considered the Black Sea to consti tute an important segment of the silk road, Kaeuf fer concluded that the Silk Road began along the banks of the Euphrates in Mesopotamia before heading east to China (Kaeuffer 1858: 413, 719)
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Apart from silk, many other goods were traded on the Silk Road. Marco Polo and Ferdinand von Richthofen listed gold, glass and fabrics, for some. China's motivation for opening up the country for trade was to have access to European horses. Horses had become a necessity in China for the transport of goods and for war, especially since their ...
Caravanserais in the Golden horde - edspace.american.edu
in comfort. Marco Polo described in detail and with admiration the route stations in China (Polo/Latham 1958, pp. 150–51; Polo 1955, p. 121): When one of the Great Khan’s messengers sets out along any of these roads, he has only to go twen-ty-five miles and there he finds a posting station, which in their language is called and in our yamb
MEASURING TIME ALONG THE SILK ROAD AT THE TIME OF MARCO POLO …
the time of Marco Polo, the Silk Road travellers used to come across different timing systems: temporal and equinoctial. The first was a formal system according to which synchronization of social activities was performed, while the other was used only by scientists. Therefore, there were various sundial constructions of
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(the Phoenicians / Hellenistic culture / the Silk Road / a long-term result of the Crusades / the impact of the travels of Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta / the effect of the extensive Mongol empire / the voyages of Zheng He / the spread of religion / Mansa Musa’s pilgrimage to Mecca / China and Korea’s influence on Japan /
MARCO POLO, CHINESE CULTURAL IDENTITY, AND AN
naming Marco Polo directly, this piece of a Yuan dynasty official document offers the best corroborative evidence in Chinese source to support Marco’s claims and thus goes a long way towards establishing the credibility of Marco’s narrative about his life in China under Kubilai’s rule. Although F. W. Cl eaves already discussed Yang
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• At the same time that Mapungubwe was at its height, Marco Polo was a European explorer. • Polo was born in Venice in Italy in 1254 and he died in 1324. • In 1271, Marco Polo travelled to China with his father Nicolo and uncle Maffeo on the Silk Road (the overland route between China and Europe. The Silk Road was named as such because ...
New Turns on the Silk Road - American University
New Turns on the Silk Road Peter B. Golden, Central Asia in World History, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. xii, 178 pp. ... Marco Polo, Rashid al-Din) that my students read for the course were described in the text of these books, thus opening up discussion of how we reconstruct the past. Based on feedback from my students, I
Marco Polo And Silk Road - Marco Polo Press (PDF) …
23 Jun 2020 · Marco Polo And Silk Road Marco Polo Press The Travels of Marco Polo ,1847 Marco Polo for Kids Janis Herbert,2001-08-01 The Far East comes alive in this activity book centered on Marco Polo’s journey to China from Venice along the 13th-century Silk Road. Kids will join Marco as he travels by caravan through vast
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WOODBLOCK PRINTING, AN ESSENTIAL MEDIUM OF CULTURE …
The Italian merchant Marco Polo (馬 ... 625-645 AD, used the Old Silk Road. All went through Tun-huang. By the time of the Tang Dynasty, 618-905 AD, woodblock printing had already developed to a high state of artistry. Buddhists made full use of the printing technique to popularize their religion.
Art Along The Silk Roads: A Reappraisal of Central Asian Art
From classical times to the days of Marco Polo, Central Asia was the bridge of trade, religion, and culture that spanned the world between East and West. The stations along the Silk Roads were visited by traders when Ptolemy wrote his Geography and by the Chinese pil-grims who recorded their travels in diaries from the fifth to the ninth ...
GREAT EXPLORERS - Cengage
Marco Polo was able to learn and experience many things that were new to Europeans. In his travel journal, he wrote that Kublai Khan’s palace was the greatest he had ever seen. He admired the Khan’s recently completed new capital, Daidu, whose streets were
The Silk Road - img3.wikia.nocookie.net
1 CE-100 CE- Buddhism spreads along the Silk Road and reaches China. 220 CE- The Han Dynasty is overthrown. Early 400s CE- The Roman Empire collapses. 1260-1295- Marco Polo travels along the Silk Road. 1400s- Sea routes develop between Europe and …
China s Belt and Road Initiative and Marco Polo - Springer
China · Marco Polo · Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Asia · Trade · Culture · Diplomacy · Travel “I have not told half of what I saw” Marco Polo, The Travels of Marco Polo, 1300 Introduction As the world becomes ever closer via technology, travel, international trade, and the spread globally of consumer goods, culture, and even viruses and
