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Marco Polo & Ibn Battura

Marco Polo & Ibn Battura. Matthew Rice. Significance?. They are important because they are documented travels and give us an insight not only to the places that they journeyed to but to the mindsets of their writers. In Marco polo’s example they show us what Europeans knew of the East.

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Marco Polo & Ibn Battura

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  1. Marco Polo & Ibn Battura Matthew Rice

  2. Significance? • They are important because they are documented travels and give us an insight not only to the places that they journeyed to but to the mindsets of their writers. In Marco polo’s example they show us what Europeans knew of the East.

  3. Marco Polo • In Marco polo’s example they show us what Europeans knew of the East. • The book he wrote demonstrates how rare is was for people to travel as far as Marco polo did. • Traveled to China a supposedly was an ambassador for Kublai Khan

  4. effects? • Marco Polo may have inspired some of the fervor to discover an ocean passage to the west. • In Christopher Columbus had a heavily annotated copy of the book. He told the people of Europe about coal, and noodles

  5. In China? • But some historians think that he may have never even been to China. • Dr. Frances Wood points the things he didn’t mention like the great wall, or porcelain. • Questions have also been raised about whether he was really an ambassador to the Great Khan or not, because no written record exist of him in the east.

  6. Ibn Battura • In Ibn Batturas case he traveled much more than Marco polo. • through out Africa the middle east and China.

  7. Ibn again. • Some historians think that he might have simply pieced together bits of circulating travel guides of the time to compose his story. • Some think he actually made the journeys. Ibn’s contribution is that he was a Muslim traveler so it give us insight into the mind of a Muslim merchant of the time

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