Marco Polo

Category
People (Trade)
Begin
1254
End
1324
Region
Europe
Reference
Excerpts from Books and Wikipedia
"Marco Polo (...) was an Italian merchant, explorer, and writer, born in the Republic of Venice. His travels are recorded in Livre des merveilles du monde (Book of the Marvels of the World, also known as The Travels of Marco Polo, c. 1300), a book that described to Europeans the wealth and great size of China, its capital Peking, and other Asian cities and countries.
Marco learned the mercantile trade from his father and his uncle, Niccolò and Maffeo, who travelled through Asia and met Kublai Khan. . . . Though he was not the first European to reach China (see Europeans in Medieval China), Marco Polo was the first to leave a detailed chronicle of his experience. This book inspired Christopher Columbus and many other travellers." [Wikipedia]

This period is linked to the following movies

Movie title
Genre
Released
Marco Polo
Miniseries
2014