Many tales have been spun from Marko Polo and his stories of his life adventures exploring the Far East. History will never truly know what was fact and what was fiction, the truth lies only and died with Marko Polo himself. But, history was also altered by the yarns of Marko Polo as his maps and descriptions of the east influenced the likes of Christopher Columbus in the quest to prove that the world was in fact round. Who was Marko Polo? He was the son born of a mercantile trader in the 13th century, but after that, it becomes harder to nail down the truth of the rest. He has been called an Italian#, a Venetian#, an exaggerator, the first journalist or at least first adventure travel story teller, maybe he started globalisation by linking civilizations and sharing inventions, maybe he was even a Croatian, but in the end, he was definitely an adventurer and has been an inspiration to generations centuries over.
             In our present world the name of Marko Polo can be found just about anywhere; on schools, hotels world-wide, museums, travel agencies, streets, maps, books, and towns/villages. His name is so widely used that most of the world's population know of him in one or the other way. Marco definitely earned his reputation. He is perhaps the biggest explorer of all times. Some say that it was Marko Polo who changed Europe's history. To narrow impoverished mediaeval Europe, Marko tales of the Far East revealed incredible wealth of knowledge, inventions of whole new civilizations. His travels inspired many to go and explore the world. Some of these explorers include Christopher Columbus who instead of finding an easier route to China stumbled and discovered America. Marko's discoveries of new land where knowledge and culture were part of daily lives dynamited Europe's walls of ignorance and later on inspired the great cultural flowering today known as a Renaissance.
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