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  2. Marco Polo - Wikipedia

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    According to The Travels of Marco Polo, they passed through much of Asia, and met with Kublai Khan, a Mongol ruler and founder of the Yuan dynasty. [34] Almost nothing is known about the childhood of Marco Polo until he was fifteen years old, except that he probably spent part of his childhood in Venice.

  3. The Travels of Marco Polo - Wikipedia

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    Book of the Marvels of the World (Italian: Il Milione, lit. 'The Million', possibly derived from Polo's nickname "Emilione"), [1] in English commonly called The Travels of Marco Polo, is a 13th-century travelogue written down by Rustichello da Pisa from stories told by Italian explorer Marco Polo.

  4. List of explorers - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 15 December 2024. Leif Erikson (c.970–c.1020) was a famous Norse explorer who is credited for being the first European to set foot on American soil. Explorers are listed below with their common names, countries of origin (modern and former), centuries of activity and main areas of exploration. Marco ...

  5. Marco Polo may have discovered America hundreds of years ...

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    A map may prove that Marco Polo discovered America more than two centuries before Christopher Columbus. A sheepskin map, believed to be a copy of the 13th century Italian explorer's, may indicate ...

  6. Bayan of the Baarin - Wikipedia

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    He was known to Marco Polo as "Bayan Hundred Eyes" (probably from a confusion with Chinese: 百眼; pinyin: Bǎiyǎn). [1] He commanded the army of Kublai Khan against the Southern Song dynasty, ushering in the Southern Song collapse and the conquest of southern China by the Yuan dynasty. "Bayan" literally means "rich" in the Mongolian language.

  7. Niccolò and Maffeo Polo - Wikipedia

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    Niccolò and Maffeo Polo remitting a letter from Kublai Khan to Pope Gregory X in 1271. Niccolò, Maffeo and Marco Polo at the court of Kublai Khan, painting by Tranquillo Cremona, 1863. As soon as he was elected in 1271, Pope Gregory X (the former Teobaldo Visconti) received the letter from Kublai Khan, remitted by Niccolò and Maffeo. Kublai ...

  8. Why Is Marco Polo Max Mara's Latest Muse?

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    In 1271, armed with a curious mind and a thirst for adventure, Venetian merchant Marco Polo headed east. He returned 24 years later with so many stories of the Silk Road that he was nicknamed Il ...

  9. Europeans in Medieval China - Wikipedia

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    Marco Polo mentioned the heavy presence of Genoese Italians at Tabriz (modern Iran), a city that Marco returned to from China via the Strait of Hormuz in 1293–1294. [73] John Mandeville, a mid-14th-century author and alleged Englishman from St Albans, claimed to have lived in China and even served at the Mongol khan's court. [74]