Marco Polo

The two millennial old highway known as the Silk Road, stretched from Spain to the Southeastern Asia’s ports . Human intercommunication was essential for the advancement of human history and technology, the Silk Road was the first and an effective human invention bringing a way for the Eastern and Western cultures of Afro-Eurasia to interact, thus not only; spreading religion, reformation of governments, intercommunication between diverse ethnicities for the first time, making advancements in…

re-militarization of Germany’s Rhineland in 1936, the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), and Germany’s occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1938 are sometimes cited. The two dates most often mentioned as “the beginning of World War II” are July 7, 1937, when the “Marco Polo Bridge Incident” led to a prolonged war between Japan and China, and September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland, which led Britain and France to declare war on Hitler’s Nazi state in retaliation. From the invasion of Poland until…

adventure that's death, then just imagine seeing the clear crimson sky there is nothing like that on earth. even if life on mars is death, it is better than death on earth . Why risk dying, well Mars One told us. “Why did Columbus travel west? Why did Marco Polo head east? it’s that pull, that unknown, that prospect of adventure that compels humans to seek new…

Asbestos has been used for centuries. It was known for fire resistant properties even back in Greek and Roman times, it just wasn't called asbestos back then. Marco polo in fact wrote about a magic rug that was cleaned by throwing it in the fire, it is now thought this was a woven asbestos fibre mat. Slaves in roman times used to wear a shirt that was also cleaned by throwing the shirt in a fire, however the Romans also noticed that the slaves that were wearing the magic garment were dying of a…

The authors of the book Worlds Together, Worlds Apart (2015) is Elizabeth Pollard, Clifford Rosenberg, and Robert Tignor, professors of illustrious Universities, whose work collaborates with important international committees within the East Coast of the United States. The public source is organized around major world history stories and themes, which go into great-detail concerning the fundamental movements and collective enlightenment that have changed various parts of the world, by linking…

they’re out of sight, so they seem less of the city even though they are, functionally, of deep importance to it. A different take on Armilla’s thinness could be the other side of what makes a city, the people. Armilla has a distinct lack of what Marco Polo defines at people, noting it as “abandoned before or after it was inhabited.” Throughout cities in the book, much of what defines some cities are the people in them,…

How Many Dynasties? It depends. The word dynasties could mean a lot of things. Amazingly, nobody can make a clear cut number of dynasties, because many questions arise. Was the Han one or two dynasties. Was the Xin really a dynasty, even though it was wedged between the Eastern and the Western Han periods. Were the Three Kingdoms of the same country anymore? The Shun dynasty only lasted a few weeks before the Manchus took over and formed the Qing, so does it count as a dynasty? More…

Empire, so Halperin would have much more access to numerous resources regarding the Mongols. Marco Polo wrote an account that states that they were also able to develop a messaging/writing system written in yam - their language. There were various posts where messengers would receive a post and continue to pass it down the trail (Doc. 8) This is actually quite similar to the American pony express. Marco Polo worked as an ambassador for Kublai Khan, meaning that he would have a great…

forcibly bent down until I am in a position of prostration. The curtains then recede, revealing a large, intimidating beast of a man sitting on his throne. He commands me to stand up, and I oblige. He asks me what my name is. I tell him that my name is Marco Polo, the bravest explorer in all the land. I then ask him, nervously, what his name is. He then tells me his is Kublai Khan, Emperor of China. He then makes his servants go and prepare a magnificent feast for my…

Many were on voyages to find India by sea route, the land route was fine and dandy, but littered with bandits who lurked about waiting to raid precious stores of expensive items. Marco Polo had begun to explore young, his uncle was an explorer and told him all about his travels. There is some debate about whether or not Marco actually sailed or not. Christopher Columbus the famous man who “found” America. He was in fact looking for India, but found North America, a completely different continent…