Marco Polo is considered by most to be the most important link between Europe and China in the 13th century. His accounts of the Eastern world had an immense impact on Western thinking and life in Europe.         Marco Polo was born in 1254 to a noble family in Venice, which was at that time an independent city-state in northern Italy. Marco had a typical education of a young man of his time1. At age 15, he had …showed first 75 words of 1354 total…

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