In , Coronado led a major Spanish expedition In , Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias c. Lawrence River would later enable France to Henry Hudson made his first voyage west from England in , when he was hired to find a shorter route to Asia from Europe through the Arctic Ocean.
After twice being turned back by ice, Hudson embarked on a third voyage—this time on behalf of the Dutch East India Company—in The Portuguese nobleman Vasco da Gama sailed from Lisbon in on a mission to reach India and open a sea route from Europe to the East. After sailing down the western coast of Africa and rounding the Cape of Good Hope, his expedition made numerous stops in Africa The story of North American exploration spans an entire millennium and involves a wide array of European powers and uniquely American characters.
The 16th-century Spanish explorer and conquistador Hernando de Soto c. Live TV. This Day In History. History Vault. He marveled at the empire's use of paper money, an idea that had failed to reach Europe, and was in awe of its economy and scale of production. Polo's later stories showed him to be an early anthropologist and ethnographer.
His reporting offers little about himself or his own thoughts, but instead gives the reader a dispassionate reporting about a culture he had clearly grown fond of.
Finally, after 17 years in Khan's court, the Polos decided it was time to return to Venice. Their decision was not one that pleased Khan, who'd grown to depend on the men. In the end, he acquiesced to their request with one condition: They escort a Mongol princess to Persia, where she was to marry a Persian prince. Traveling by sea, the Polos left with a caravan of several hundred passengers and sailors. The journey proved harrowing, and many perished as a result of storms and disease. By the time the group reached Persia's Port of Hormuz, just 18 people, including the princess and the Polos, were still alive.
Later, in Turkey, Genoese officials appropriated three-quarters of the family's wealth. After two years of travel, the Polos reached Venice.
They'd been gone for more than two decades, and their return to their native land undoubtedly had its difficulties. Their faces looked unfamiliar to their family and they struggled to speak their native tongue. Just a few years after returning to Venice from China, Polo commanded a ship in a war against the rival city of Genoa.
He was eventually captured and sentenced to a Genoese prison, where he met a fellow prisoner and writer named Rustichello. As the two men became friends, Polo told Rustichello about his time in Asia, what he'd seen, where he'd traveled and what he'd accomplished. The book made Polo a celebrity. It was printed in French, Italian and Latin, becoming the most popular read in Europe. But few readers allowed themselves to believe Polo's tale.
They took it to be fiction, the construct of a man with a wild imagination. Polo, however, stood behind his book, and it influenced later adventurers and merchants. After his release from prison in , Polo returned to Venice, where he married, raised three daughters and, for some 25 years, carried on the family business.
Community Dashboard. About Verified Account. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Niccolo Polo. View source. Working with his brother for the majority of his life, they established trading posts in Constantinople , Sudak , and in the western part of the Mongol Empire. Born and bred to be explorers, they left Venice for Constantinople in the Byzantine Empire in the s, hoping to easily obtain money from the Latin occupation of the city.
They established a trading post in the city, from where they began their commerce. Despite this, the brothers quickly returned to Constantinople after Marco's birth, leaving Marco to grow up with his mother. Eventually, their friendship resulted in Darim inviting the brothers to the Assassins' headquarters in Masyaf. The Polos proceeded to make their way back to their home in Constantinople, though the brothers were attacked by a Mongol attacking party two days after leaving Masyaf.
In , the brothers left Constantinople for the Mongol Empire, aiming to retrieve the Codex from the Mongols. However, they were unsuccessful in obtaining the Codex after nearly a decade of traveling, and the Polos returned to Venice in With this, the two brothers began to establish an Assassins Guild in Venice, bringing the Order to their native homeland.
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