Marco Polo's Journey to China. 2nd EditionCan one book really change the world? A handwritten manuscript by Marco Polo in 1288 did. Polo, son of a wealthy Italian merchant, wrote about his incredible experiences traveling to China with his father and uncle on a trade expedition, and also about his adventures as an envoy of Kublai Khan, the ruler of most of China. Polo’s book became a bestseller in Europe in the fourteenth century. It was copied over and over by hand, translated into fourteen languages, and became one of the first books to be printed after the invention of moveable type. The tales inspired others—including Christopher Columbus in the fifteenth century—to seek new sea routes for trade. Polo’s adventures—and manuscript—are one of world history’s most pivotal moments. |
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The story of how the inward-look- ing, farming culture of the European Middle Ages (a.d. 476 to 1453) became the restless, inquisitive, and expansionist society that pushed its ...
... Syria, Lebanon, and Israel). In exchange, Venice earned the right to trade in the principal ports of the kingdoms that the Crusaders established. Tyre and Haifa and The CrusaDes in 1095 european leaders, urged on by the.
in 1095 european leaders, urged on by the pope, began the Crusades, a series of wars to gain control of the city of ... however, the europeans began to lose some of them to a well-organized Muslim offensive. two more Crusades in the ...
In 1202 Leonardo Fibonacci, a mathematician from Pisa, introduced Arabic numerals (1, 2, 3, and so on, as opposed to Roman numerals, I, II, III) to Europeans. Hand-written copies of his Book of the Abacus circulated throughout Europe.
although europeans were beginning to use arabic numerals in polo's lifetime, the old habit of roman numerals did not die out. in reading primary sources, it is helpful to know them. here is a guide to how the romans used seven letters ...
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Traveling Across Asia | 36 |
Marco Polo In China | 54 |
Marco Polos Book | 68 |
Marco Polos Legacy | 84 |
Primary Source Research | 94 |
Primary Source Document | 104 |
Whos Who? | 114 |
Source Notes | 120 |
Bibliography | 124 |
Further Reading | 126 |
Websites | 127 |
Index | 128 |
About The AuthorPhoto Acknowledgments | 132 |
Back Cover | 134 |
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| 書名 | Marco Polo's Journey to China. 2nd Edition Pivotal Moments in History |
| 作者 | Diana Childress |
| 版本 | 修訂 |
| 出版者 | Twenty-First Century Books, 2013 |
| ISBN | 1467703796, 9781467703796 |
| 頁數 | 132 頁 |
| 匯出書目資料 | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |