Marco Polo

Personal Background

• September 15 1254
• Marco was a merchant
• Venice,Italy
• Marco died in 1324

Sponsor

• Venice,Italy sponsored him
• Kublai Khan supported him
• His dad and his uncle gave him the money to him.

Reasons For Exploration

• He wanted to have a journey to asia.
• Him and his uncle and dad were seeking the Mongol Empire in Asia.
• So he could 

Date of Exporation

• 1271-1295

Route of exploration

• You can find maps of where he travled
• He traveled though Venice,Mediterranean to the holly land
• through Armenia,Persia,Afghanistan,and the 
• Pamir mountains then the cut across the Gobi 
• Desert beijing China.

Impact

• He Impacted the world by making the silk road
• He is know by making the silk road and how far he traveled to get to China
• He discovered the silk road and how he survived his journey to Asia