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In the year 1254, in Venice, Italy a young boy was born into a wealthy Venetian family. He grew up living a hard life raised by extended family, because of his mother's death when he was young and his dad's obsession with travel. His father, Niccolo Polo, teamed up with his uncle, Maffeo Polo and became successful jewel merchants who traveled through most of Asia and into present day China together during his youth. His full name was Marco Polo.
Niccolo and Maffeo Polo began their excursion in China when they joined a diplomatic comfort inn suites mission comfort inn suites to the court of Kublai Khan. Within this court, the Mongol leader's grandfather, Genhis Khan, conquered Northeast Asia. Here they made plans with the Mongol comfort inn suites leader to return to the court after traveling back home to Venice, Italy for a short while. Genhis Khan showed comfort inn suites interest in Christianity and asked the Polo brothers to return from Venice with one hundred priests and a collection of holy water. The Polo brothers knew that they had to try and accomplish this goal for the Khan and in 1269 they both returned to their home in Venice, not wasting any time planning their trip back.
When Marco Polo reached age 17, in 1271, his father and uncle were leaving to revisit Asia for the second time and agreed to bring Marco with them. While bringing Marco along, they didn't forget the wish from the Khan and tried gathering as many priests as possible. They didn't reach the one hundred mark they wanted, but they found two, whom at first seemed up for the long journey, until it began, then quickly turned around and went home. This journey was not easy by any means, and it was all done on land through harsh terrain and territory, which is what scared away the two priests.
The three men all made their way through the Middle East, although they made a pit stop by the Afghanistan Mountains because Marco picked up a small illness comfort inn suites from the long days of travel. This travel included the Gobi desert. Marco explained it would take a year to undergo comfort inn suites and one month to pass through the narrowest part of it consisting of just mountains, valleys, and sands. Finally, after the Polo brothers and Marco traveled for four years total, comfort inn suites they reached China and Kublai Khan. When meeting up with him once again they stayed with him at his summerhouse, known as Xanadu. Marco was in awe at the marble comfort inn suites architecture used for the house and later used these details in his published novel for description of his sights to prove the validity of his excursion.
When in China, the three men became a part of the Khan court. comfort inn suites Niccolo and Maffeo were given highly important roles in the leader's court. Marco, on the other hand, was broadening his knowledge by mastering in four different comfort inn suites languages, and became a special envoy for Khan. This job for Marco entitled him to spontaneous trips to unknown or unexplored areas in Asia by the Europeans. While he traveled comfort inn suites on these trips he held onto a stamped metal packet, which served as his official credentials of a powerful leader. Continuing with this occupation, comfort inn suites as he was remarkably good at it, he eventually was moved up to governor of a Chinese city, and was employed by Khan as an official of the Privy Council. He continued this for a while and then eventually was promoted as a tax inspector of the City of Yanzhou.
After seventeen long years of being a part of this Khan court, in China, the three men ended up returning home to Venice. Although Khan did not like or agree with this rash decision from the three men, he made a deal that he would only let them go if they took the Mongol princess with them to Persia so that she could marry the Persian prince. So in 1292, they agreed immediately and began their excursion by sea on caravan with hundreds of individuals including them three, brothers. Sadly, however, by the time they landed in Persia's Port of Hormuz, only eighteen people survived including the three of them.
When all of this excitement was taking place, Genoese officials began taking away over three quarters of the family's wealth, only two years before Marco Polo's return home. When Polo finally got home, he had a difficult time adjusting because he had been gone for a total of twenty-four years. His family had a hard time recognizing his face and he had a tough time speaking comfort inn suites his native tongue and communicating with people in Venice. comfort inn suites However, when he had first heard a war had started between Venice and Genoa, he overcame this issue and decided to command a ship in war against them.
Things didn't turn out so well for Marco Polo, as he was found and captured by the Genoese. After being captured, he was immediately sentenced to prison. comfort inn suites Thinking this was going to be the end of his time, little did he know he would meet someone so helpful in allowing him to return to Venice. While in prison he met a writer by the name of Rustichello whom he told all of his adventurous stories too. Rustichello began writing these stories down and created his novel, " The Travels of Marco Polo ," which was soon after published and became extremely popular worldwide. Finally, in 1299 he was released from prison in Genoa and returned to Venice.
Due to his fame from the novel published while in prison, many individuals were interested in hearing the story from Marco Polo himself. They would go and visit him and he was treated as some sort of a celebrity. He continued living this life and decided to stay in Venice for the remainder of his life. Here he ended up marrying someone, and having and raising three daughters. comfort inn suites Polo then got wrapped up in his family comfort inn suites business and continued this for twenty-five years, while raising his family.
Sadly, on January 8, 1324 Marco Polo passed away from a small illness at home. He had many visitors before passing away where they had hoped he would say his novel was false. comfort inn suites However, Polo stuck by the novel and said it was the truth, it all occurred, and that the novel didn't even include half as much as he saw and experienced. Although this word of Polo's was spread throughout Venice, there were still a few individuals whom did not believe it and hoped one day it could be proven wrong.
Ultimately, Marco Polo left many legacies behind and was an influence on the growth comfort inn suites of not only Venice, Italy, but the rest of the world as well. Not only did his famous novel, raise many curious questions of the validity behind it, he also left behind other books, films, influence on European cartography, and an introduction of the "Fra Mauro Map" behind in his footsteps.
Marco Polo introduced European cartography by traveling the long route he did. He started an interesting journey leading comfort inn suites to Christopher Columbus's travels to America. It was found based off of Polo's journey that the earth was not actually flat, but rather could be round and more land could be farther away. It was said that Christopher Columbus brought along Marco Polo's novel to help guide him along his journey. From this the "Fra Mauro Map" was introduced. This map was a circular plan sphere, which was mapped out and drawn on a large sheet of parchment paper. Once drawn on paper, it was set into a large wooden frame that was two meters in diameter. This allowed comfort inn suites others comfort inn suites to see the world that was discovered thus far, mapped out on a large scale.
Lastly, as most important individuals comfort inn suites have remembrances left in the world to remind people of their work and fame, Marco Polo had a couple things named after him for his remarkable journey and personhood. comfort inn suites The Marco Polo Airport, located approximately five miles from Venice, Italy was named after him because of his travels through Europe. The location was set as is because this is where he was born, grew up, and passed away. It was ultimately his hometown. Another thing named after him was a species of sheep, known as the, Marco Polo Sheep. These sheep were a subspecies of sheep named after Polo because he actually described them in detail within his novel, "The Travels of Marco Polo." They lived in Central Asia, which was the exact place he traveled, and were known according comfort inn suites to his description as having spiral horns and being large animals.
Overall these were not the only things that were in remembrance of Marco Polo. There are things like Marco Polo the game, which is ironic because it has people finding each other traveling through unknown space (due to our eyes being closed because we are otherwise familiar with the space) as he did, traveling through the unknown land.  He was a very influential man and set the foundation for many things to prosper and grow within our world, while inspiring many others to adventure and see the rest of the world. Today many researchers, scientists, comfort inn suites and explorers have found most of what Marco Polo claimed in his novel, to be true, leaving little room for uneasiness like there used to be about his claims and descriptions. Due to these findings, many more view him as a remarkable and well-accomplished "celebrity" to remember for the traveling and inspiring that he did towards finding the world as it is today.