![]() After a year, the brothers returned to Italy with a letter from the Great Khan to Pope Clement IV asking for 100 learned men to teach the Mongols of China about Western ways and religion. With him they traveled to BEIJING, arriving in 1266. While there, they encountered an ambassador from the Mongol Hulagu Khan. When civil war broke out, the brothers Polo went to BOKKARA, where they remained for three years. When Marco was six, his father and uncle, merchants of Venice, traveled to Sudak on the Crimea, then to Surai on the Volga River. As befitted the son of nobility, he was educated as a gentleman. He grew up in Venice, the center of Mediterranean commerce. ![]() ![]() Marco was born in ITALY, either in Curzola off the Dalmatian coast or in Venice, in 1254. He traveled Asia for 24 years, all the way to CHINA, where he became confidant of Kublai Khan (1214–94.) He also wrote of his travels. MARCO POLO IS THE best known of all Western travelers along the SILK ROAD. ![]()
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