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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... trade for both luxury goods from Asia and raw materials from Europe. With no land to farm, Venice depended entirely on trading salt and fish for other goods. Its political ties to Constantinople gave the island traders a chance to grow ...
... trading ship called itself The Whole World, probably because at one time or another it contained goods from every ... trade in the principal ports of the kingdoms that the Crusaders established. Tyre and Haifa and The CrusaDes in 1095 ...
... trade. Other port cities also supplied ships for the Crusaders, especially Genoa and Pisa. A strong rivalry developed among the three Italian cities as they started trading colonies in the Crusader states. In the early thirteenth ...
... trade. In Venice. sTolen. horses. the great bronze horses that the Venetians took from Constantinople also attracted another famous looter. in 1797, after seizing control of northern italy, french emperor napoleon shipped the horses to ...
... trading ventures. Men willing to do the traveling and negotiating did not need to put up any cash. If the journey was successful, they earned one-quarter of the profits. A pilgrim traveling through Venice remarked, “The entire people ...
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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 |