https://padlet.com/erikamorales21/8i2mm5juflu4dia9 Erika M 224-31 en-us 2023-04-26 03:17:31 UTC 2025-10-30 15:00:06 UTC hello@padlet.com erikamorales21 https://padlet.com/erikamorales21/8i2mm5juflu4dia9/wish/2568167210 2023-04-26 03:19:55 UTC https://padlet.com/erikamorales21/8i2mm5juflu4dia9/wish/2568167210 erikamorales21 https://padlet.com/erikamorales21/8i2mm5juflu4dia9/wish/2568167696 Marco Polo was born in 1254]]> 2023-04-26 03:20:28 UTC https://padlet.com/erikamorales21/8i2mm5juflu4dia9/wish/2568167696 erikamorales21 https://padlet.com/erikamorales21/8i2mm5juflu4dia9/wish/2568168247 His family were Ventians, but it is unclear if he was actually born in Venice or if the birth took place on the island of Curzola off the Dalmatian coast, where his father and uncle had established a trading post.]]> 2023-04-26 03:21:02 UTC https://padlet.com/erikamorales21/8i2mm5juflu4dia9/wish/2568168247 erikamorales21 https://padlet.com/erikamorales21/8i2mm5juflu4dia9/wish/2568169041 Marco Polo spent at least part of his childhood in Venice, which was at the time a city state heavily engaged in international commerce.]]> 2023-04-26 03:21:53 UTC https://padlet.com/erikamorales21/8i2mm5juflu4dia9/wish/2568169041 erikamorales21 https://padlet.com/erikamorales21/8i2mm5juflu4dia9/wish/2568170669 2023-04-26 03:23:24 UTC https://padlet.com/erikamorales21/8i2mm5juflu4dia9/wish/2568170669 erikamorales21 https://padlet.com/erikamorales21/8i2mm5juflu4dia9/wish/2568171195 In 1271, the Polo brothers embarked on a new journey, and this time the took Marco with them. ]]> 2023-04-26 03:23:56 UTC https://padlet.com/erikamorales21/8i2mm5juflu4dia9/wish/2568171195 erikamorales21 https://padlet.com/erikamorales21/8i2mm5juflu4dia9/wish/2568171849 With them on their new journey east, the Polo family brought letters and gifts from the pope that they were to give to Kublai Khan, and they were also accompanied by two friars. ]]> 2023-04-26 03:24:36 UTC https://padlet.com/erikamorales21/8i2mm5juflu4dia9/wish/2568171849 erikamorales21 https://padlet.com/erikamorales21/8i2mm5juflu4dia9/wish/2568172417 Because they reached a war zone and the friars got too scared to continue.]]> 2023-04-26 03:25:09 UTC https://padlet.com/erikamorales21/8i2mm5juflu4dia9/wish/2568172417 erikamorales21 https://padlet.com/erikamorales21/8i2mm5juflu4dia9/wish/2568173237 The Polo family pushed on without them, traveling through Armenia, Persia, and Afghanistan, and following a route that went over the Pamir Mountains of Central Asia to get to China.]]> 2023-04-26 03:25:59 UTC https://padlet.com/erikamorales21/8i2mm5juflu4dia9/wish/2568173237 erikamorales21 https://padlet.com/erikamorales21/8i2mm5juflu4dia9/wish/2568174735 2023-04-26 03:27:29 UTC https://padlet.com/erikamorales21/8i2mm5juflu4dia9/wish/2568174735 erikamorales21 https://padlet.com/erikamorales21/8i2mm5juflu4dia9/wish/2568175847 Eventually, a Mongol ambassador arrived to Bukhara, asking the brothers to go to the Hulagu Khan who was interested in meeting the exotic foreigners. ]]> 2023-04-26 03:28:39 UTC https://padlet.com/erikamorales21/8i2mm5juflu4dia9/wish/2568175847 erikamorales21 https://padlet.com/erikamorales21/8i2mm5juflu4dia9/wish/2568176594  Consequently, the brothers started travelling even further to the east, via Samarkand and then through the dangerous Gobi desert.]]> 2023-04-26 03:29:25 UTC https://padlet.com/erikamorales21/8i2mm5juflu4dia9/wish/2568176594 erikamorales21 https://padlet.com/erikamorales21/8i2mm5juflu4dia9/wish/2568177153 2023-04-26 03:30:00 UTC https://padlet.com/erikamorales21/8i2mm5juflu4dia9/wish/2568177153 erikamorales21 https://padlet.com/erikamorales21/8i2mm5juflu4dia9/wish/2568177713 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.]]> 2023-04-26 03:30:27 UTC https://padlet.com/erikamorales21/8i2mm5juflu4dia9/wish/2568177713