HFM 058 | Explorers that Pushed the Boundaries of the Known World, Part 1: Marco Polo – Opening Europe’s Window to the East

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Marco Polo in Mongolian Dress


Marco Polo is more than a game you play at the YMCA pool — he spent 20 years traveling throughout the farthest domains of the Mongolian Empire, wrote a best-selling travel account, and permanently altered Europe’s mental map of the world. Find out in this episode how he helped usher in the Age of Exploration two centuries later.


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Published on February 23, 2014 21:32
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