Marco Polo
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- People saying they don't know anything about Asia.
- We don't know anything about the land above us!
- Marco Polo exploring Asia.
- The Biggest City, Hangzhou.
- Wow! This city is so big!
- Back then at the time of Marco Polo, there was nothing known about Asia. And so Marco Polo went over to Asia to tell the people what he saw.
- Kublai Khan dispatching Marco Polo to help administer the realm.
- He saw the beauty of Asia and wrote down all he saw with some imagination. To us, he was imagining, but he didn't know all the animals we know today so he had to combine words he knew.
- Romance Novelist writing his journey.
- Marco Polo than stumbled across Hangzhou. It was the biggest city he knew and said that "There is a lake that is about 30 miles, and all around it, there are beautiful palaces and mansions.
- The people reading about Marco Polo's discovery.
- Marco Polo entered the court of ruler Kublai Khan who, at the time. Was a powerful leader of Mongol. Khan soon dispatched Marco Polo To explore the rest of China.
- After Marco Polo came back to Italy, he went over to a romance novelist named Rustichello da Pisa to write his book based on his seventeen years travel in China.
- When it was published, people were amazed by it and even decided to trade with China and creating the Silk Road. China got gunpowder while Europe got new knowledge and silk!
- Marco Polo in China!
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