Marco Polo
The first European traveler who opened the door to the east is the Venetian citizen Marco Polo [1.254 - 1.325 AD/ CE] the first who traveled the Silk Road to Cathay/ China at 1.271 AD/ CE.
Marco Polo was a merchant traveler from Venice who lived for a while in China and in a book of his travels introduced Europe to the far east.
The first European explorers to arrive in China were greeted by the native Chinese. The explorers exchanged gifts and ideas. The European explorers took tea back to Europe.
A famous European traveler to Cathay was Marco Polo, a Venetian merchant and explorer. He journeyed to China in the late 13th century, spending nearly 25 years there and serving in the court of Kublai Khan. His accounts of his travels, detailed in "The Travels of Marco Polo," provided Europeans with some of the first comprehensive insights into Asian cultures and geography. His stories sparked interest in trade with the East and influenced future exploration.
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Macau, which belonged to the portuguese empire!
the Portuguese
Many European nations forced China to sign unequal agreements.
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Portugal was the first European power to claim Chinese land when it set up a port in Macao.
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