Marco Polo

He wasn't on a voyage, but a 4 year overland trip.He was 17 and went with his father to China to trade. His father had all ready been there and was trading with them. He was a Venice merchant so he took his son with him on the trip. Polo stayed 25 years before returning to Venice, Italy.

Yep totally. Trust me. I have a PHD in Marco Polonian Histree.

He saw the Himalaya Mountains,the Gobi desert,Mt. Ararat,Magi's tombs in Persia, and more. EPaz

his hometown was •Venice, Italy.

Marco Polo called China "Cathay".

MARCO POLO helped thirteenth centry Europe gain access to the far east. he established conections with the emporer of China...who he visited for 20 years. He made the world couriuos as to what the far east held. no one really knew a lot about them or the orient. His book the Travels of Marco Polo captured many with his discriptions of the "Kingdoms and marvels of the East." he brought spices, silks, porcelain, and many other treasures back to Italy.

Well, benefitting society means the good things he did, correct? Marco Polo brought pride to Europe because he was the first European to cross the entire silk road successfully!

marco polo is a man from italy. him and his dad and uncle went and to china to trade with the king of china, the king wanted them to bring 100 Christian men to see if christian is the true belief

On his trip to china, his father and uncle, nicolo and maffeo

Marco Polo was a native of Venice and therefore spoke the Venetian language, which is a Romance language distinct from the formal Italian of his era. He learned little or no Latin. Because of his travels in Mongolia and China he probably was able to speak Mongolian and Mandarin Chinese of the era, as well as a form of Greek, which was widely used by merchants of the era, and perhaps the languages of other territories he traveled through.

When Marco was 17, he accompanied his father and uncle on their second journey to Asia. The Polos had traveled 5600 miles (9000 km) in over three and a half years to reach Cathay.

Marco Polo was an Italian merchant and traveler from Venice. Marco Polo had many journeys, and there is no information on the weather during these journeys.

He was not funded by any government. His family was marine merchants.

He was 17 and went with his father to China to trade. His father had all ready been there and was trading with them. He was a Venice merchant so he took his son with him on the trip. Polo stayed 25 years before returning to Venice, Italy.

Venice Italy

His dad and uncle came home from their original trip and told him about all of the things they saw and he wanted to experience that and see everything and be able to tell people about the things he did and saw.

Marco Polo was an Italian explorer. He is credited with opening Europe up to the world. As a young boy, he traveled to China with his uncle. He then stayed for years, where he studied and brought back items and souvenirs to bring back home. One of the items he brought back was noodles, which is where the Italians got the idea for pasta.

marco polo's dad and uncle came on his journey.

He went on one of the longest walking journeys ever with his father and uncle, and he introduced many things to Europe that inspired many people, including Christopher Columbus, to explore the world.

There was both a positive and negative impact on the New World due to the Columbian Exchange. This exchange of goods allowed for people in various parts of the world to share products such as corn, livestock, fruits, and other such supplies. However, due to this type of exchange disease was also spread worldwide.

One. He wasn't an explorer. He left for China with his father at 17 years old because his father was a merchant who traded with the Chinese. He stayed in China for 25 years.

The information that Marco Polo bring was,in Japan he said,there was so much gold that the whole palaces were built of it and he saw the palace of kublai Khan.He described it as having walls all covered with gold and silver.

Marco Polo (1254-1324) was an Italian voyager and merchant who was one of the first Europeans to travel across Asia through China, visiting the Kublai Khan in Beijing. He left in 1271 (he was a teenager at the time) with his father (Nicolo Polo) and uncle (Maffeo Polo); they spent about 24 years traveling. [Nicolo and Maffeo had previously made a trip to China, from 1260-1269, during which the Kublai Khan (the conqueror of China) requested holy oil blessed by the Pope.] Polo sailed south from Venice, Italy, in the Mediterranean Sea to the Middle East. They then went southeast overland to Persia (now Iran), then through the Pamir Mountains and the Gobi Desert, to Beijing, China. They explored the area south of Beijing, including Yunan and Szechuan. Returning to Beijing, they traveled east to Tankchow (at the mouth of the Yangtse River), then south to Hangchow, China. They then sailed south along the coast of China, to what are now Vietnam and Sumatra. They sailed west to Sri Lanka and India, and then back to Ormuz (on the Persian Gulf). They went northwest overland to the Black Sea, then the Mediterranean Sea, and back to Venice, Italy. Marco Polo's written accounts of his travels were the first Western record of porcelain, coal, gunpowder, printing, paper money, and silk; Polo wrote "Book of Ser Marco Polo" around 1298.

Marco got back at age 39, year 1295.

During Marco Polo's expeditions to where we now call Asia, Marco Polo is reknown for introducing Italy to spaghetti (originally from China) from which the Italians developed their own variations and production techniques

I think it was because he wanted to find shorter silk trade routes through Asia. Back then, China's biggest export to Europe was silk, and merchants were constantly going back and forth through routes that were very long, dangerous. The old routes also sometimes went through deserts in the Middle East.