![]() Students might also ponder how the trip of Christopher Columbus, who used Polo’s writings as a guide, might have ended differently had he not read them. ![]() The image here, for example, is from a 1902 book titled The adventures of Marco Polo, the great traveler. Many maps that were constructed after his voyages were a reflection of Polo’s writings. He was not always accurate in what he recorded. In some cases, they affected these future travelers’ successes and how they would navigate their own voyages. The documentation and maps of his travels significantly influenced European’s perceptions of the Asian continent. ![]() Sometimes he provided names for the places he visited. While traveling to these new lands he provided detailed descriptions of the lands he encountered and sometimes his perceptions of the people that lived on those lands. Polo is known for his travels as a westerner on the Silk Road. ![]() He reached further than all of his contemporaries and predecessors and traveled through all of China. He recorded his travels in the manuscript is the Les voyages de Marco Polo de Venise ( The Travels of Marco Polo). He spent twenty-four years journeying through the Asian continent and left behind an impressive amount of documentation including travelogues of his adventures. ![]()
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