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Marco Polo — “The Wayfarer”

Marco Polo — “The Wayfarer”

TV Ep. · S1E1

All of Marco Polo 2 episodes

Original languageEnglish

Runtime

GenreAction & AdventureDrama

Set in1275
Serializd average
3.8 / 5
Saltiness

Fewer grains = more historically accurate.

Shelfmark MS 0026Last checked

Aired onNetflix
739 years
between the events and the first broadcast
1275 → 2014

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Event · Part of Silk Road

Marco Polo was a Venetian merchant and explorer whose travelogue, written with the Italian writer Rustichello da Pisa following Polo's return from the Mongol/Chinese Yuan Dynasty court, helped bring a new level of knowledge and understanding to European societies about their East Asian counterparts. Traveling for decades across the Silk Road to Asia, Polo also described in great detail the societies of Central Asia through which he passed.

filed under 1271

Runs throughHigh Middle AgesMongol ConquestsPax Mongolica

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Network

The Silk Road was an extensive set of overland trade routes connecting the Eastern and Western portions of the Eurasian continent since antiquity. The network bears the name "Silk Road" for one of its most famous commodities: silk, often produced in Chinese textile workshops and bought at great expense in the West, even as early as during the days of the early Roman Empire.

filed under 1275

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Runs throughHigh Middle AgesMongol ConquestsPax Mongolica

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Production Information

Directed by
Espen SandbergJoachim Rønning
Written by
John Fusco
Production country
United States

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