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The Travels of Marco Polo
Title: The Travels of Marco Polo
Category: History
Details: Words: 681 | Pages: 2.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Travels of Marco Polo
THE TRAVELS OF MARCO POLO
Marco Polo grew up in Venice, Italy. He was born in 1254 while his father and uncle were on their first journey to China. Marco's mother died while he was still very young and he was raised by an aunt and uncle. They taught him all the skills needed to be a merchant. He learned arithmetic, reading, and writing as well as how to judge products, handle foreign currency, and organize …showed first 75 words of 681 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 681 total…seen but not many people believed him. He decided to write a book entitled Description of the World which described many of the sights he saw. Marco thought that if people read his stories instead of hearing them they might be more likely to believe. But no only did Marco Polo's book convince people that he was not making things up, it inspired many of the great explorers that came after him, including Christopher Columbus.
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