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[[Image:Polo-khan.png|right|thumb|Polo with Kublai Khan]]

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'''Marco Polo''' ([[Venice]], [[Italy]] 1254 - Venice 1324) was a [[Venice|Venetian]] adventurer, trader, explorer and writer. He is one of the first westerners to travel to [[China]] on the [[Silk Road]]. <ref>http://www.kyrene.org/schools/brisas/sunda/great/2amy.htm</ref>

'''Marco Polo''' ([[Venice]], [[Italy]] 1254 - Venice 1324) was a [[Venice|Venetian]] adventurer, trader, explorer and writer. He was one of the first westerners to travel to [[China]] on the [[Silk Road]]. <ref>http://www.kyrene.org/schools/brisas/sunda/great/2amy.htm</ref>

Marco Polo spent 20 years in China (then Cathay) at the court of [[Mongol]] prince [[Kublai Khan]] with his father and uncle. Before his trip to China, his father and uncle had done all the way to the court of Kublai Khan and back (present day Beijing). ''Il Milione'' (also known as ''The Travels of Marco Polo'') is the book that Polo wrote to bring information of those exotic places. He made, in this book, reference to much of [[Asia]] including the Arab world, [[Persia]] and [[Japan]]. ''Il Milione'', first entitled ''Le divisament dou monde'' ("''The description of the world''") was soon translated from French into many European languages.     

Marco Polo spent 20 years in China (then Cathay) at the court of [[Mongol]] prince [[Kublai Khan]] with his father and uncle. Before his trip to China, his father and uncle had done all the way to the court of Kublai Khan and back (present day Beijing). ''Il Milione'' (also known as ''The Travels of Marco Polo'') is the book that Polo wrote to bring information of those exotic places. He made, in this book, reference to much of [[Asia]] including the Arab world, [[Persia]] and [[Japan]]. ''Il Milione'', first entitled ''Le divisament dou monde'' ("''The description of the world''") was soon translated from French into many European languages.