456 Published BooksMarco Polo
From 1271, Marco Polo of Venice explored Asia to 1295; the only available
Travels of Marco Polo
accounted China to Europeans until the 1500s.
Marco Polo spun a tale of how people gave a life of sensual pleasure and a potion to make young Assassins to yearn for paradise, their reward for dying in action, before their secret missions.
Stories and various documents also alternatively point to his ancestry, originating in Korčula, Croatia.
People well knew this trader. He recorded his adventures in a published book. People lost the original copies of his works.
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