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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... rulers. Venice's Rialto was crowded with Germans, Armenians, Slavs, and other foreign merchants but no one from India or China. Instead, cara- vans from central Asia and the Arabian Peninsula brought Chinese porcelain and silks and ...
... ruler of a large, wealthy empire beyond the Tigris River, which flows out of Turkey and into Iraq. His subjects were devout Christians, he said, eager to recapture Jerusalem from the Muslims. The letter was a hoax, but Europeans wanted ...
... ruler who was overthrowing Muslim rule in central Asia was not a Christian. He was the Mongol leader Temujin, who in 1206 united the nomadic tribes of what is now Mongolia and took the title Genghis Khan (Very Mighty Lord). He then ...
... rulers, the pope sent envoys with let- ters to Mongol leaders. One of these embassies, led by John of Plano Carpini, a Franciscan friar (a member of a reli- gious order founded by St. Francis of Assisi in 1209), trav- eled all the way ...
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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 |