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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... Italy. A barrier of narrow sandbanks protects the lagoon from stormy seas and enemy ships. Through gaps between the sandbars, the tide carries salt water from the Adriatic Sea in and out of the lagoon. The ebbing and flowing water cuts ...
... Italy became part of the Byzantine Empire (a.d. 527 to 1453), which included what are now Greece, Albania, Macedonia, Bulgaria, and Turkey. The capital of the Byzantine Empire, Constantinople (modern Istanbul, Turkey), lay.
... Italian trade fairs. A Swiss monk, writing in the late ninth century, described Venetian traders in the Italian city of Pavia as selling peacock feathers, fine fabrics from Tyre (in what is now Lebanon), embroidered silks, and ermine ...
... Italian cities as they started trading colonies in the Crusader states. In the early thirteenth century, French leaders sent envoys to Venice to charter ships and food supplies for forty-five hun- dred knights and twenty thousand foot ...
... italy, french emperor napoleon shipped the horses to paris. they were restored to Venice after napoleon's defeat at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. these famous horses moved again in the 1970s. after noticing that industrial pollution ...
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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 |