Marco Polo reveals a mercantile approach when describing his understanding of the world. The main goal of this approach was to increase a cities wealth by imposing government regulation concerning all of the cities commercial interests. Marco Polo was born into a family of merchants which is the main reason he encounters this approach and is a privileged member of society. Many societies had tight control of limited wealth and if someone was interested in getting into business, they would need to get into the merchant guilds. These guilds directed all of the business activity. The mercantile approach relates to Marco Polo because he provides mercantile commentary during his travels because he talks about how business is being conducted in the places he visits.
Marco Polo encounters many societies that have rather bizarre habits. One the these being the Assassins. …show more content…
The people of Maabar wear no clothing except for a piece of scrap cloth to cover their private parts. The king doesn’t wear anything as well except for a necklace that has 104 beads. Each morning he says 104 prayers in honor of his idols which also symbolizes the beads. The king also has 500 wives; which Marco Polo refers to as concubines. It is noted that whenever the king sees a woman he is interested in; he takes her for himself. Unlike many of the other countries, Maabar does not breed horses. When a man dies, his body is cremated and his wife flings herself into the same fire and lets herself be burnt with her husband. It is believed that the woman who engage in this practice are highly praised by all. Anther very bizarre practice the people of Maabar practice is that they only eat with their right hand. Their reasoning behind this is they believe that the right hand should only touch things that are clean and fair and the left hand is used for needful tasks that are unclean and
Marco Polo encounters many societies that have rather bizarre habits. One the these being the Assassins. …show more content…
The people of Maabar wear no clothing except for a piece of scrap cloth to cover their private parts. The king doesn’t wear anything as well except for a necklace that has 104 beads. Each morning he says 104 prayers in honor of his idols which also symbolizes the beads. The king also has 500 wives; which Marco Polo refers to as concubines. It is noted that whenever the king sees a woman he is interested in; he takes her for himself. Unlike many of the other countries, Maabar does not breed horses. When a man dies, his body is cremated and his wife flings herself into the same fire and lets herself be burnt with her husband. It is believed that the woman who engage in this practice are highly praised by all. Anther very bizarre practice the people of Maabar practice is that they only eat with their right hand. Their reasoning behind this is they believe that the right hand should only touch things that are clean and fair and the left hand is used for needful tasks that are unclean and