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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.
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Runs throughHigh Middle AgesMongol ConquestsPax Mongolica
