The Travels of Marco Polo - Summary on a Map 

Yes absolutely. And that’s why I to this day we all know his name.

Seth McFarland: "A million ways to die in the East"

Probably safer then than it is now

It's my dream life. If I was born hundreds of years ago, I almost certainly would have been an adventurer.

@@tigervalley62 you can do it now .you come to China now.

No idea why there are not more grand epic movies based on this

@@Soundmaster91 there was a netflix series about Marco Polo that ran for 2 seasons, but netflix cancelled it because it cost them too much money to make

@@thejustlawofshamash yeah I want the adventure film not a documentary no wonder those fail.

@@Soundmaster91 marco polo is not a documentary, its adventure drama. I haven't seen it but the reception wasn't good

@@MANJIshishishi possibly the best series Netflix ever produced and the fukers cancelled it

I think he also started at 1269 as well.

the legend introduced 69 to China

He died at 69? Nice.

Nice

Came here to say exactly that lmao. What a streak of successes this guy's life was!!

@Floron a life spent very well

@Floron he left at 17 and came back at 41, then died at 69 years old. He enjoyed a very good life

I see what your saying but lets be honest, nowadays we can just see everything with the internet youkno

@@Jordidwaard there is a difference between experiencing something for yourself and seeing something online

​@@Jordidwaard seeing things on internet and actually physically experiencing them are two 100% completely different things. Go travel my friend

not to mention that the great wall was likely an unremarkable ancient ruin during their visit, as the "great" wall was built 2 centuries later during Ming dynasty

@@fangslash that's almost certainly the reason, yeah

Actually, they did not know of tea until the 16th century when a portugeese explorer bringed it from the east indies.

Tea wasn't really a thing until the east indies company. And we would have seen it or heard about it. If you look at the Muslim guy who left north west Africa and went to China after a few trips to mecca. But he was a scholar and noted everything. If I were the first westerner to say Japan. Id have noted their language, their appreciation for the small things and their ferocious life of war and death. Of their clothes, weapons and armor. Of their currency and the name of every coin. I'd talk about lords the shogun and the emperor

Honestly I'd say Polo likely did travel to the East and probably to many of the places he notes. However, he very likely embellished his tale and his importance. Some of his descriptions are things one couldn't just make up, but many are also just wrong. He seems to have told tales he heard as first hand accounts. Like a braggart who spends a semester in Europe in a student exchange that talks about 'seeing' a bunch of stuff around Europe but never actually traveled much outside the area he stayed in except for a couple weekend trips. There's a chance he never actually spoke with Kublai Khan but probably visited court. Who knows maybe the Great Khan did ask him some questions or he was a curiosity the Khan spent a moment with but I find it pretty unlikely he was taken in and give trusted administration roles. That's just not the way Mongolian or Chinese culture worked on a personal or professional level. China had a whole bureaucratic class the Mongols kept in place and I seriously doubt Marco would have been that highly literate in Chinese much less had the necessary connections. Remember that written Chinese isn't like written Western languages and takes years to master even for native speakers. Remember he was almost instantly given highly important tasks according to him. And even if he was just a boy genus there's so much politics and back biting with in Imperial Chinese bureaucratic structures for a total outsider, a barbarian from a lesser people (which what he'd be seen as) from outside the Middle Kingdom no less, with no powerful patron to flourish. So, you have to believe the Khan was so taken with him at first glance he was like a 'son' to him right off the bat.

@RJ I have Netflix and didn't know that show existed. Thanks for the recommendation. 👍 I'll check it out.

We studied in class 4

It is a great serie. 100% recommended.

11min is in detail? ahhaahhahaha

@@federox86 Yes. It is. Some people do a great job in short time frames.

Poor guy, was arrested for inadvertently chasing skirt 😂

That is funny how something like this can be changed into a glorious story

@@someonerandom704 Isn't 'Polo" the modern pronunciation for us as well? How do you know what marco Polo's actual name was 700 years ago? It has been modernized

@@pyropulseIXXI Not at all. We have preserved original books about him dating back 500 or more years ago. All of them use the name Marco Polo. Such as "Marco Polo da Genie lia de le meraugliole cole del Mondo", from 1496.

​@@pyropulseIXXIthere's a difference between a phonetic writing such as latin, and a non-phonetic one such as Chinese. We know how "polo" was pronounced because... well... it was written as Polo.

Thank you !

I agree and learning history is one of my favourite things to do

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@@miguelashcatiom2435 i usually get unnoticed

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Yes but it did not work like that..they were many messangers..so like in few months some would go some would arrive ..some would not arrive at all ...they were trade roots so people who went there would also bring "news" I been in some old Roman graveyard in South Turkey...there was grave off some old Roman merchant from i thing 2 century. And on his gravestone was written that during his life he went to Rome from his hometown in south Turkey 37 times..that was like amazing for me to see that in that times he manages to went to Rome 37 times and back and is quite a distance ,you need to cover lot off land and lot off sea

Grandson of Genghis Khan*

not only that, but travelling those areas with barely an idea what to expect. Imagine seeing en elephant before you've even heard it exists; or seeing an ancient Chinese or Persian city before it was filled with Coca Coca ads.

@@ric112 Europeans knew about elephants since the Greek colonies in Africa. Now, rhinos were a complete different creature (hence it being called a unicorn)

great people..............

wonderful life, until about 1347

What a slow pace of life. They casually go on a 24 year journey from Europe to Asia and back, leaving their family to just assume they died. I know they were taking their time but nowadays Venice and China are just hours away.

Until the Black Death hits and wipes out over 50 million people.

tbf, most people were farmers who were starving but if you were the lucky 1% you got too explore. its crazy to think that atm, exploring isnt really a proffession anymore. once we mapped all the continents there really wasnt much left to do

Marco Polo was the inspiration of Christopher Columbus

@@sanexpreso2944 And the Vinland saga?

@@dime9398 Yes, so there would have been at least a century more time for the information about the far western land to reach southern European ears.

@@dime9398 But by 1492, Vikings were not as feared because they were already become Catholics. "Did you know Christopher Columbus stayed in Iceland for an entire winter? In 1477, he sailed to Iceland and stayed at the farm called Ingjaldshóll (Ingjaldshvóll). He undoubtedly learned about" "Vikings sailing to the New World, and about the travels of Leifur Eiríksson"

Its still an insanely impressive city that would be a world renowned landmark if it were in another country

Gautama was a fraud and Hindu heretic who contradicted himself with his message to desire non-desire. Notice he never died of hunger because he was always too attached to his flesh's desire for survival. He valued his 1 human life over the microbves his acidic gut burned to death. No compassion for ugly microbes.

@@scintillam_dei completely unnecessary and immature to insult a religion. And also totally unrelated to the subject of the video.

@@ovief Me: Facts. You: Feelings. You also: Lie that what I said is "totally unrelated." Everyone can see that "Buddhism" was mentioned here. You also: Immature for lying and pretending your feelings are more important than facts.

@@scintillam_dei bro what you said was also feelings and also completely irrelevant considering no one knew of microbiomes

Dude, it would SUCK. Imagine - no good bed, no bathroom, no hot water, no toothbrush,mirror or toothpaste, no fast food or access to good food, no hotels, no women company, no good mode of transport, no internet, no cell phones, no TV, no Tylenol, no good hiking boots, no cars, no thermal clothes, no tents, no bicycles, no glasses, no bandaids, no cool drinks or portable freezer, no good beer or wine, no binoculars, no good backpacks, no store to buy fresh undies, no umbrella, no sunglasses, no dramamine/benadryl for ship travel, no lighting at night etc. There is NO way it must have been good to be a vagabond or explorer. It was shit and we're so far advanced and so much superior today that it's really amazing they did it despite the craziness it was.

@@fr9714 I hope that is sarcasm, cause bruh pretty much no one had access to that in the 1200 AD.

@@fr9714 lmao why did u write such a long list, I agree with most of them but: "No good mode of transport" - Horse, boat "No women company" - Lmao I don't even get women company now, and I bet women existed in the year 1200 in the cities that he visited "No good food" - Good food is subjective, humans are adaptive, they wouldn't have noticed how bad the food was because it was all they knew. "No bathroom" - The world is your oyster ;) "No good beer or wine" - There was definitely both of these alcoholic drinks and refer back to my reasoning for good food. If it gets u drunk, it's good.

@@fr9714 think about the fact that our ancestors were hunter gatherers. We were made to live in groups and in nature. We evolved that way. Of course conveniences like medicine and plumbing are undoubtedly greater, but whether stuff like internet is necessary or even good for mental health is arguable. It's just nice to imagine. Life was harder then but that's all they knew so they don't feel the loss of no toothpaste and stuff. And plus they had tents and ways of preserving food back then, our ancestors aren't that dumb.

@@loganfytchy-powow4580 yup, in medieval times people drank more beer and wine than water because it was safer to drink in general lol!

Travelling with a khan's paiza could be safer than driving through some of the same regions today.

Not explorer but wanderer would be suitable

Alexander the Great explored a lot too. His men were the first Europeans to sail in the Indian Ocean, not the Portuguese. Even Romans were tehre before the Portuguese. The Portuguese are overrated. :-) Like the British. See my channel for more proof. I plan on videos proving the Spanish discovered Hawaii, not the Brutish. Also, the British Empire wasn't the biggest. They lie.

@@scintillam_dei no it was, it held 25% of Earths land area, the largest maritime empire in history. Also nobody “discovered” Hawaii except the Polynesians

@@pocketmarcy6990 Hypocrites counting oceans of sand but not oceans. Spain at its zenith ruled most oceans in the universe. The Brits couldn't monopolize even 1. :-) See a map of French islands in every ocean. That proves Iberia ruled more waves. And Spaniards were the first to discover Hawaii, not the overrated British racist genocidal maniacs. Type in "Spanish Discovery of Hawaii 1555" in the search bar to see the proof. There are millions of Mayans, Nahuas, Quechuas and other Native Americans today 'cause Spain didn't genocide them. Pity the British took Tasmania, as that means no Tasmanians exist anymore.

@@scintillam_dei Ever heard of “Britannia rules the waves” buddy? They most certainly did rule the oceans if we’re counting them for some reason, you’re overestimating the power of the Spanish empire by a long shot. It used the slave trade and most certainly did genocide the natives (why do you think there aren’t any natives on Hispaniola or Cuba?) Spain was not a perfect empire, neither was Britain mind you, but respectively you’re wrong and probably a Hispano-Catholic nationalist based on your channel

History is better than fantasy works like Lord of the Rings. All fantasy is based on history.

chinese people just learn and study lies after lies : they don't even have youtube or any third party source

​@@gabri-immortale You made four grammar mistakes in this short sentence. I know you cannot do math, now you cannot manage your native language lol :)?

@@pittoak i'm learning Engrish from animu

@@pittoak japan > china . Even better with the ww2 skin!

@@gabri-immortale Come back when you finish Grade five English Language Art (ELA) course. You need earn at least C-

Yes but it's been a thing for ages in other media like video games.

@@scintillam_dei well this isn’t a video game is it? Who cares if it’s used in other things it still makes it better knowing where exactly he went and explored

@@Adzo78 Yes, it's good. I love it too. I'm just clarifying it isn't new in case someone thought that they were the originators.

@@scintillam_dei I don't think a single person thought this RU-vid channel invented blurring stuff out

@@shanefitzpatrick8377 Fog isn't blur. And if someone praises Michael Jackson saying "His moonwalk is amazing! He's great for doing it!" makes it seem as if they believe he was the first.

I'm doing videos of my scenario for my gigantic realistic map of Eurasia for Age of Empries 2 on EUROPE and INDIA VERSUS THE MONGOL EMPIRE I already did one of the Spanish Empire VS the Mongol across the Pacific Ocean. I plan to learn Mongol.

I'm pretty sure the voice is AI-generated (and very convincingly at that), if that's of any interest to you :)

You posted it! Let’s go brother 💪💪💪💪

the swimming pool game came first

Well what's holding you back? The modern times is the best time to do it in?

Needs to throw in cats for a million more views.

there's a netflix show that got cancelled after a few seasons

@@jonnykb1155 i really like that tv show. Too bad there wasnt more.

There is a very good Italian Rai TV series of 1983, starring Ken Marshall, with also Leonard Nimoy, musics of Ennio Morricone. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ooav0I0sRo0.html

The entire history of Marco Polo is documented in a comic book story of Donald Duck and his relatives (in the context that they were producing a film funded by uncle Skroutz). I had read the comic book as a kid but I never guessed how accurate it was until I watched this video!

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Exactly, He was from Italy which meant that paved roads were everywhere.

The problem with that is that it would be very short. While it's a remarkable feat, the details are pretty simple and I doubt they'd make more than a four to five minutes video. Then again, I might be wrong. In a way I hope that I am, because that would indeed be dope.

@@gabraeld Yeah, there is really less available knowledge too about it.

See my video "Did the Vikings REALLY discover América¿"

In the middle ages people travelled a lot actually. It was full of merchants and many people went on pilgrimage or studied in different cities at university. It was a moving society much more than people usually think

I mean its a wall to keep Mongols out and the dynasty at the time was Mongol so..

The Great Wall we see now didn't exist back then. It was a rather mundane series of old, partial, walls partly in ruin. Any European city walls would have seemed more mpressive. Ibn Battuta talked about it, but he dind't personally see it, and, as he said, while in China, he never talked to someone that had personally seen it.

in other words, Dicks out for Harambe?

@@suchymk ???? Uncalled for