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This is the first 1,000 characters of 675 words (2.7 pages) in the essay titled Marco Polo Marco Polo, the only Venetian to travel to China and return helped Venice become an important city. Marco Polo traveled to China with his father and uncle to help Kublai Kahn. He brought things back from China and developed new things from the trading. Venice changed in many ways after Marco Polo’s travels.Marco Polo, like his father Niccolo and his uncle Maffeo was a traveler. His first experience of traveling came in 1271 when his father and Uncle took Marco on a journey with them. At this time Marco was only seventeen years old and inexperienced. The three of them traveled east from Venice to bring Kublai Kahn, who is in China, gifts from the pope. They first sailed to Acre, which is now in the area of Israel and Lebanon. Then they traveled overland to the top of the Persian Gulf. From there they then rode northward along the fringes of what is now Afghanistan. They passed through the province of Badakhshan in Northern Afghanistan, where according to Marco, “The mountains are so lofty that it is a hard day’s work, from morning till evening to get to the top of them (Clark 32).” From there they kept going northeast and reached the Pamirs, which are mountains. The three of them traveled for twelve days across this desert without seeing anything green. It was also very cold. The Polo’s finally reached Kashgar and then traveling east they reached the Gobi desert. They took a route that was three hundred and eighty miles long and traveled this ... |
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Keywords: kublai kahn, marco polo, polo marco, china gifts, gobi desert, marco polos, on the border, seventeen years old, venice, northern afghanistan, mountains, journey, kashgar, traveled east, great palace, kahns