Marco Polo's Journey to China. 2nd EditionTwenty-First Century Books, 2013年1月1日 - 132 頁 Can 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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... Holy Land (which included coastal areas of southern Turkey, 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 ...
... holy sites at the eastern end of the Mediterranean sea. at the time, this area was under Muslim rule. after establishing Christian kingdoms in the holy Land, however, the europeans began to lose some of them to a well-organized Muslim ...
... Holy Land in the spring, war broke out anew. They managed to hold the city, and in a frenzy of revenge and greed, they looted its fabulous wealth. ConsTanTinople. saCkeD. The plundering of Constantinople by the French and the Venetians in ...
... Holy Land or ports along the Black Sea. China was still thousands of miles away, the other side of a vast region dominated by Islamic rulers. Venice's Rialto was crowded with Germans, Armenians, Slavs, and other foreign merchants but no ...
... Holy Land. What made the letter especially popular was the long description of Prester John's fabulous realm. It was truly a Utopia, a land of milk and honey, where “emeralds, sapphires, car- buncles, topazes, chrysolites, onyxes ...
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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 |