Marco Polo (In Our Time)
1271 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the celebrated Venetian explorer Marco Polo. In 1271 Polo set off on an epic journey through Asia. He was away for more than twenty years, and when he returned to Venice he told extraordinary tales of his adventures. He had visited the court of the Mongol Emperor Kublai Khan, and acted as his emissary, travelling through m
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Around 1271
- Ottoman Empire (1299)
- Dante's Divine Comedy (1320)
- Yuan dynasty (1271)
- Mongol sack of Baghdad (1258)
- Majapahit Empire (1293)
- Maori arrive in New Zealand (1280)
- Rumi's Masnavi (1258)
- Mongol invasion of Rus' (1237)
- Marco Polo travels to China (1271)
- Golden Horde (1242)