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  2. Marco Polo - Wikipedia

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    National Geographic Marco Polo: Journey from Venice to China; Works by Marco Polo at Project Gutenberg; Works by or about Marco Polo at the Internet Archive; Works by Marco Polo at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks) Marco Polo's Orient Film on the material culture of areas along Polo's route using objects from the collections of the Glasgow ...

  3. Marco Polo Bridge - Wikipedia

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    The Marco Polo Bridge is well known because it was highly praised by the Venetian traveler Marco Polo during his visit to China in the 13th century (leading the bridge to become known in Europe simply as the Marco Polo Bridge), and for the 20th-century Marco Polo Bridge Incident, which marked the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937 ...

  4. Did Marco Polo Go to China? - Wikipedia

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    A number of scholars have argued in favor of the established view that Polo was in China in response to Wood's book. [2] The book has been criticized by figures including Igor de Rachewiltz (translator and annotator of The Secret History of the Mongols) and Morris Rossabi (author of Kublai Khan: his life and times).

  5. The Travels of Marco Polo - Wikipedia

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    The book is Polo's account of his travels to China, which he calls Cathay (north China) and Manji (south China). The Polo party left Venice in 1271. The Polo party left Venice in 1271. The journey took three years after which they arrived in Cathay as it was then called and met the grandson of Genghis Khan , Kublai Khan.

  6. In the Footsteps of Marco Polo - Wikipedia

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    As a result, they picked up the trail traveled by Marco Polo's father, Niccolo and his uncle Maffeo, to Bukhara, hoping to visit Iran on the way back. The Polo brothers had opened up the land route to China, known as the Silk Road years before Polo. In Uzbekistan the two were required to have a visa for every city that they visited.

  7. Silk Road - Wikipedia

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    Around the same time, the Venetian explorer Marco Polo became one of the first Europeans to travel the Silk Road to China. His tales, documented in The Travels of Marco Polo, opened Western eyes to some of the customs of the Far East. He was not the first to bring back stories, but he was one of the most widely read.

  8. Niccolò and Maffeo Polo - Wikipedia

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    It is usually said that the Polos used the Northern Silk Road although the possibility of a southern route has been advanced. [7] The Polos spent the next 17 years in China. According to The Travels of Marco Polo (Il Milione), Kublai Khan took a liking to Marco, who was an engaging storyteller. He was sent on many diplomatic missions throughout ...

  9. Marco Polo Bridge incident - Wikipedia

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    The Marco Polo Bridge incident, also known as the Lugou Bridge incident [a] or the July 7 incident, [b] was a battle during July 1937 in the district of Beijing between the 29th Army of the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China and the Imperial Japanese Army.