This was Marco Polo.
Oil.
irrigation
Early humans originated in Africa. Evidence from fossil records and genetic studies indicates that modern Homo sapiens first appeared in East Africa around 200,000 to 300,000 years ago. From Africa, early humans migrated to other continents, eventually populating the globe.
Attempting and partially succeeding in imposing peace and promoting prosperity in a turbulent area of early civilisation. Something like it is needed in today's Middle East.
The farthest east area with Muslim-majority population are the Halmahera Islands in the Indonesian archipelago.
One famous explorer from Venice was Marco Polo. He traveled to Asia and wrote about his experiences in the book "The Travels of Marco Polo," which introduced Europeans to the riches and cultures of the East.
riches
it was the crusades
Definitely oil, not sure of others
Jacques Cartier was an early European explorer of the New World. Like many explorers of their day, they pursued a strategy of finding a shorter passage way to the riches of the Far East. Henry Hudson, as one example did the same thing. Hudson at first believed the river named after him was a passage to the East. In the early 1500's Cartier ventured under the flag of France and believed he found a way to Asia. This of course was impossible so he did help France establish colonies in the New World.
to reach the riches of the east and expand trade
the famous people in Asia is the riches person.
Rudyard Kipling
Mark Twain wrote a travel log of a famous explorer in his book "The Innocents Abroad", which detailed his own journey to Europe and the Middle East. He then shared a prison cell with another writer, Oscar Wilde, at Bow Street Magistrates' Court in London in 1895 after Wilde's arrest for gross indecency.
An example of exploration to the east would be the Crusades. The Crusades happened for multiple reasons one was to flush out heretics and Muslims and the other was to get the riches that the East held in store.
Marco Polo
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