Did Marco polo explore for any country?

Answer 1

Marco Polo was not an explorer in the way that Columbus, Vespucci, or Cabot (other famous explorers from Italy) were explorers. He did not petition a royal family to give him the necessary funds to put together an expedition to a foreign land and he did not promise any dignitaries that they would receive recompense (in the form of additional possessions and/or merchandise).

Marco Polo left with his father as part of a group of Venetian merchants seeking to do business in the Orient. He traveled the Silk Road for the express purpose of trading with the current Yuen Dynasty of China, which he did, and return with Chinese goods to Venice (and Europe in general). The reason he is often considered an explorer (instead of just merely a merchant) is that he wrote a book about what he saw in his journeys and had it published.