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Rachewiltz argued that Marco Polo's account allows the Persian and Chinese sources to be reconciled – by relaying the information that two of the three envoys sent (mentioned in the Chinese source and whose names accord with those given by Polo) had died during the voyage, it explains why only the third who survived, Coja/Khoja, was mentioned ...
There is a legend of Marco Polo importing pasta from China [20] [21] which originated with the Macaroni Journal, published by an association of food industries with the goal of promoting pasta in the United States. [22] Rustichello da Pisa writes in his Travels that Marco Polo described a food similar to lagana.
The first noodles will only appear much later, in the 10th or 11th centuries, [19] and there is a popular legend about Marco Polo bringing the first pasta back from China. Modern historians do not give much credibility to the story and rather believe the first noodles were imported earlier from the Arabs, in a form called rishta . [ 20 ]
But he brought back more than just a good tale; Polo helped establish relations between Venice and the Mongol Empire, which paved the way for textiles like camel hair, cashmere, and silk to come ...
'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.
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 ...
In the book, The Travels of Marco Polo, Kublai Khan officially received the Polos and sent them back with a Mongol named Koeketei as an ambassador to the pope. They brought with them a letter from the Khan requesting 100 educated people to come and teach Christianity and Western customs to his people and oil from the lamp of the Holy Sepulcher.
He added, “To have a polo expert in-house with him was so special. I think a lot of projects have EPs that can give great notes, but it's rare that you have someone who's truly an expert in the ...