The Great Empire of China and Marco Polo in World History

Readers will follow along as author Richard Worth takes readers on a tour of the great empire of China during the thirteenth-century expedition of Marco Polo. Polo remained in Asia for decades under the government of Khubilai Khan, Mongol emperor of China. Worth also addresses the arguments that Polo's journey may have been fictionalized or embellished. Regardless whether or not these accusations are true, one thing is clear: Marco Polo's book, A Description of the World, had an...
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Readers will follow along as author Richard Worth takes readers on a tour of the great empire of China during the thirteenth-century expedition of Marco Polo. Polo remained in Asia for decades under the government of Khubilai Khan, Mongol emperor of China. Worth also addresses the arguments that Polo's journey may have been fictionalized or embellished. Regardless whether or not these accusations are true, one thing is clear: Marco Polo's book, A Description of the World, had an immense effect on European expansion.