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TRAVELLING FACILITIES 12 TH
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MORCO POLO
PRESENTATION OF S.ANUSHKA IX JASMINE ROLL NO 9JO3 SUB ENGLISH

MORCO POLO
Marco Polo was a merchant from Venice and an
adventurer who traveled from Europe to Asia
from 1271 to 1295. He traveled through Asia
along the Silk road in the 13th century. The
story of his travels is recorded in ‘II Milione’
(The Million) also called ‘The Travels of Marco
Polo’.
Marco Polo – Early LifeMarco Polo was born on September
15, 1254, in Venice, Italy to Niccolo. His Mother died when
he was young so Polo was raised by the extended
family.Father Niccolo and uncle Maffeo were successful
jewel merchants and travelled extensively, setting up
trading posts in Constantinople, Sudak, Crimea, and the
western part of the Mongolian Empire. They even visited
China, then called Cathay, during their Journey.His father
and uncle met the Mongol leader, Kublai Khan (grandson
of the great conqueror Genghis Khan), at his court in
Beijing. Kublai Khan expressed interest in Christianity,
hence requested Polo brothers to return to Rome and
come back to Beijing with holy water and 100 learned
priests.When Marco Polo was 15, his father and uncle
returned home. Though the pope did not grant their
request as asked by Kublai Khan, the Polo brothers
decided to return to Asia and this time, they took 17-year-
old Marco with them.In 1271,they sailed south from
Venice across the Mediterranean to the Holy Land, swung
through Armenia, Persia, Afghanistan and the Pamir
Mountains and cut across the Gobi Desert to
Beijing.Around 1275, they met Kublai Khan at the summer
palace, Xanadu. Niccolo and Maffeo were granted
important positions in the leader’s Court. Marco immersed
himself in Chinese culture and became a master of China
During the Here Polo began his documentation of Another aspect of
two-year the rich social fabric of India: “The Indian life that excited
return climate is so hot that all men and his interest was
journey by women wear nothing but a loincloth, religion. He was
sea across the including the king – except his is particularly taken with
Indian Ocean, studded with rubies, sapphires, Jain monks: “They
while Polo trainedand
emeralds as aother
merchant,
gems.”learning the trade from would not kill an
returning his father, Niccolo, and his uncle, Maffeo, animal on any account,
home from themselves ambitious travellers who had not even a fly, or a
China, Marco previously set up trading posts in Constantinople, flea, or a louse, or
Polo arrived Crimea, and the western part of the Mongolian anything in fact that
on the Empire. Here they met Kublai Khan, grandson of has life; for they say
Coromandel Genghis Khan, and ruler of the Mongols. these all have souls,
Coast of India In 1271, the three men embarked on an epic and it would be a sin to
in AD 1292. journey to Asia, travelling largely along the Silk do so.”
He entered Road until they reached Cathay – modern day Polo documented his
the kingdom China – where they were received by the royal travels in The Travels
of the Tamil court of Kublai Khan. Khan was so impressed by of Marco Polo, a book
Pandyas near the younger Polo’s intelligence and humility that that did much to reveal
Tanjore. He he decided to appoint Marco to serve as his to Europeans the
visited emissary to India and Burma. mysteries of the
Southern Orient. Such were his
India during descriptions of the
the reign of enormous wealth that
Rudramma he saw in the Mongol
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vessels used in Europe
during the Middle Ages.
Like ships from antiquity,
they were moved by sails,
oar or a combination of the
two. There was a large
variety, mostly based on
much older, conservative
designs. Although wider
and more frequent
communications within
Europe meant exposure to
a variety of improvements
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include airways, railways,
roadways, ships, subways,
metro, etc. These transport
systems have been continuously
in the process of advancement
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of transportation are: Air: The
use of aeroplane, jets,
spaceship, rockets, etc to
transport people and goods from
one place to another through air.
Land: All big cities use vehicles
and other motors for
transportation from one part to
another or from city to city.
12 TH CENTURY 21 ST CENTURY
THANK YOU
S.ANUSHKA

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TRAVELLING FACILITIES 12 TH

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PRESENTATION OF S.ANUSHKA IX JASMINE ROLL NO 9JO3 SUB ENGLISH

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