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Last time I checked, Marco Polo was supposed to never have visited china and all the rest, but based his work of fiction on reports heard in venezia by traders.
by trumbitta2 12y ago
Last time I checked, Marco Polo was supposed to never have visited china and all the rest, but based his work of fiction on reports heard in venezia by traders.
- maaku 12y agoIt is by no means a clear-cut case. Some of the things reported by Marco Polo (e.g. paper money) were completely unknown in the west and middle-east at the time of his purported travels. He gets a remarkable number of things right, and fails to get certain other stuff wrong as one would expect of someone that hadn't actually visited the court of Kublai Khan.