https://padlet.com/anasolorza22/5lgazgjd04newbjh Ana Isabella Solorza Torres 222-33 en-us 2024-04-22 17:41:37 UTC 2024-04-24 00:53:25 UTC hello@padlet.com anasolorza22 https://padlet.com/anasolorza22/5lgazgjd04newbjh/wish/2965101792 2024-04-22 17:59:53 UTC https://padlet.com/anasolorza22/5lgazgjd04newbjh/wish/2965101792 anasolorza22 https://padlet.com/anasolorza22/5lgazgjd04newbjh/wish/2965103827 2024-04-22 18:01:24 UTC https://padlet.com/anasolorza22/5lgazgjd04newbjh/wish/2965103827 anasolorza22 https://padlet.com/anasolorza22/5lgazgjd04newbjh/wish/2965106676 2024-04-22 18:03:50 UTC https://padlet.com/anasolorza22/5lgazgjd04newbjh/wish/2965106676 anasolorza22 https://padlet.com/anasolorza22/5lgazgjd04newbjh/wish/2965112458 2024-04-22 18:08:40 UTC https://padlet.com/anasolorza22/5lgazgjd04newbjh/wish/2965112458 anasolorza22 https://padlet.com/anasolorza22/5lgazgjd04newbjh/wish/2966818480 He set off on a journey to the East at the age of seventeen with his uncle and father as part of a diplomatic mission for Pope Gregory X. ]]> 2024-04-23 17:55:36 UTC https://padlet.com/anasolorza22/5lgazgjd04newbjh/wish/2966818480 anasolorza22 https://padlet.com/anasolorza22/5lgazgjd04newbjh/wish/2966820639 A citizen of the Republic of Venice, Polo grew up in a family where both his father Niccoló and uncle Maffeo were merchants. ]]> 2024-04-23 17:57:32 UTC https://padlet.com/anasolorza22/5lgazgjd04newbjh/wish/2966820639 anasolorza22 https://padlet.com/anasolorza22/5lgazgjd04newbjh/wish/2966823751 We do know that Marco Polo spent at least part of his childhood in Venice, which was at the time a city state heavily engaged in international commerce. He recieved a good education that included, among other things, classes in French and Italian. His native language is believed to have been Venetian.]]> 2024-04-23 18:00:01 UTC https://padlet.com/anasolorza22/5lgazgjd04newbjh/wish/2966823751 anasolorza22 https://padlet.com/anasolorza22/5lgazgjd04newbjh/wish/2966827418 Even before Marco was born, the brothers had travelled extensively, setting up trading posts in Constantinople, Sudak, Crimea, and the western part of the Mongolian Empire. They even visited China.]]> 2024-04-23 18:02:57 UTC https://padlet.com/anasolorza22/5lgazgjd04newbjh/wish/2966827418 anasolorza22 https://padlet.com/anasolorza22/5lgazgjd04newbjh/wish/2966830583 This trip, which would end up taking 24 years since they stayed for very long in China, is the one chronicled by Marco Polo in his book.]]> 2024-04-23 18:05:41 UTC https://padlet.com/anasolorza22/5lgazgjd04newbjh/wish/2966830583 anasolorza22 https://padlet.com/anasolorza22/5lgazgjd04newbjh/wish/2966831067 It has been assumed that the Polos travelled along the Northern Silk Road, although the possibility of a southern route has also been advanced by some scholars.]]> 2024-04-23 18:06:06 UTC https://padlet.com/anasolorza22/5lgazgjd04newbjh/wish/2966831067 anasolorza22 https://padlet.com/anasolorza22/5lgazgjd04newbjh/wish/2966832967 The brothers Niccilo and Maffeo Polo left Venice and embarked on their first long sejour abroad when Marco was just a child.]]> 2024-04-23 18:07:42 UTC https://padlet.com/anasolorza22/5lgazgjd04newbjh/wish/2966832967 anasolorza22 https://padlet.com/anasolorza22/5lgazgjd04newbjh/wish/2966834250 They ended up spending three years in Bukhara in today’s Uzbekistan, pretty much unable to move anywhere else.]]> 2024-04-23 18:08:43 UTC https://padlet.com/anasolorza22/5lgazgjd04newbjh/wish/2966834250 anasolorza22 https://padlet.com/anasolorza22/5lgazgjd04newbjh/wish/2967007492 Kublai Khan, fifth Khagan of the Mongol Empire and the would-be founder of China’s Yuan dynasty, was happy to see the foreigners and greeted them with great hospitality. ]]> 2024-04-23 21:21:59 UTC https://padlet.com/anasolorza22/5lgazgjd04newbjh/wish/2967007492