Marco Polo. 2008. 64p. Marshall Cavendish ... which feature appropriate costumes and landscapes for this area in which the Silk Road routes crossed. Metternich, Hilary Roe. Mongolian Folktales. Illus.
Marco Polo, while traversing the Desert of ... has thinned the ranks of passing caravans on the Silk Road, the most famous trade route in history for more than 2,200 years. Even now its vast ...
Most Americans know Marco Polo either as an explorer or pool party game. But this Venetian merchant, who lived from 1254 to 1324, traveled widely and documented his journey across the iconic Asian ...
Venetian explorer, merchant, and writer Marco Polo died 700 years ago ... creating the first thorough account of China and the Silk Road for Europeans, who had never heard or even imagined ...
The vast Mongol empire he created stretched from China to Europe, across which the Silk ... the Routes were particularly safe from raiders or aggressive tribes in this period, and great expeditions, ...
By the 10 th century, a second south-bound Silk Road had been established, with links to Vietnam. The silk-production traditions were continued by the Champa population, whom Marco Polo visited in the ...
The Venetian writer, trader, and explorer Marco Polo travelled the Silk Road more than seven hundred years ago. Like Marco Polo, Dr Sam Willis wrote about his travels.
The Silk Road, like the Milky Way ... We think of it as a land route, like Marco Polo’s to the court of Kublai Khan; it turns out that part of the road was maritime and on rivers.
It took in land and water routes. It is not only ... Italy's famous adventurer Marco Polo came to Yuan's capital Dadu (now Beijing) along the Silk Road in 1275. In his journal notes, he gave ...
Marco Polo. 2008. 64p. Marshall Cavendish ... which feature appropriate costumes and landscapes for this area in which the Silk Road routes crossed. Metternich, Hilary Roe. Mongolian Folktales. Illus.
The Venetian writer, trader, and explorer Marco Polo travelled the Silk Road more than seven hundred years ago. Like Marco Polo, Dr Sam Willis wrote about his travels.