Person1254 – 1324
Marco Polo
Venetian merchant who spent seventeen years in Yuan China and on his return left The Travels of Marco Polo
Where they went
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The Venetian merchant Marco Polo came to Yuan China with his father and uncle and stayed seventeen years in Kublai’s service. The book he left, The Travels, introduced the East to Europe.
Related works
- Book: The Travels of Marco PoloBook · 1300 · Marco Polo, Rustichello da Pisa · Il Milione
People who appear alongside
- Kublai Khan (Emperor Shizu of Yuan)1215 – 1294
Fifth Great Khan and founder of the Yuan dynasty, who made peace with Goryeo and launched the invasions of Japan
Themes this person appears in
- The Mongol Conquests1206 – 1294
From the rise of Genghis Khan to the Yuan conquest of the Song — eighty years in which the Mongols swept Eurasia from Goryeo to Hungary