Marco Polo by Thomas Boerbon

Standerd #1 Mastery

22boerbont — 2018-10-30 14:41:40 UTC

The 4 causes of Marco polos Expidition

GOLD- Wealth and Riches (Spices, Maps, Rare resources). This is positive because because countries earn more.

GLORY-Making your country known by claiming land. This is negitive because the spanish stole land in inhumane ways.

GOD-Sharing your religion. This is positive because this spread cultures

Standerd #2 Mastery

22boerbont — 2018-11-01 13:30:14 UTC

Marco polo made traveling to Asia easy through the silk road and he made many maps of Asia. This is good because it helped many people out. He shared cultures from the east and west. This is good because cultured mixed and people learned a lot about each other. Marco polo was the first person to travel and write a novel about it. This is good because people could learn about his expedition.

Standerd #3 Mastery

22boerbont — 2018-11-01 13:32:55 UTC

“Here people was once used to be honourable: now they are all bad; they have kept one goodness: that they are greatest boozers.” (Quote from marco polo’s book). This painting shows Marco Polo’s ship arriving in asia. You can see how different the ships are then the buildings surrounding them. These points are different because Polo thinks that the people are throwing away their ancient ways, but they think that the people are bringing in weird and foreign ideas into asia.

Starderd #4 Mastery

22boerbont — 2018-11-01 13:34:53 UTC

These are some of the things Marco Polo left and took from Asia.

Left- Marco traded many forms of newly invented technology to Asia such as mirrors, glassware, and clocks. This changed Asia because they started to use western inspired items in their life. They also adapted the things they were traded.

Took- Since the Polo’s were one of the few to be trusted by the Asian emperor at the time and were one of the only ones to be able to travel to Asia, they brought in many new things/ideas from Asia to Europe, such as the compass, paper, porcelain, silk, spices, ivory, and jade. This changed Europe because they used ivory, porcelain, and spices to make medicine. They used paper and silk for everyday things, and jade and the compass for jew

Standerd #5 Mastery

22boerbont — 2018-11-01 13:38:22 UTC

One effect would be cultural blending. This happens because people colonize in other countries and share things, ideas, or fall in love. This is positive because cultures spread and became more diverse. Second, the native population went down. This is because many colonizations ended up with war between explorers and natives. This is negative because natives died. We lost many people's lives and unnecessarily killed others Third people got new land. This happened because people explored to new places, stayed there, and grew civilizations. This is positive because life expanded and people got axes to new resources.

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22boerbont — 2018-11-01 13:40:09 UTC

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