Venice was a large trading center on the Mediterranean, and his family was in the business of trading with other countries. Both his father and his uncle were merchants who had traveled far.Marco Polo was allowed to go along.
" Returned home to Venice his father company continued its activities and Marco soon became a wealthy merchant."
"The great Kublai Khan orders junks to be fitted out for the expedition. He gives the Italians messages of goodwill to be delivered to the pope and the kings of Spain, France and England."
He brought back the secrets of gunpowder, the compass, printing or noodles.
In 1470 Anton Koberger opened Europe's first print shop in Nuremberg.
Sorry m oh wise one.. There is no real record of his going to Germany.. And even if he did, did Germany have advanced textile skills like the Chinese or Egyptians at that time ?
"According to one authority, the Polo family were great nobles originating on the coast of Dalmatia. Niccolo and Maffeo had established a trading outpost on the island of Curzola, off the coast of Dalmatia; it is not certain whether Marco Polo was born there or in Venice in 1254."
From his trading outpost he went in almost all European countries for business.
Today you can find Hotel Marco Polo in Munster, Hamburg and Stuttgart/Germany.
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Venice was a large trading center on the Mediterranean, and his family was in the business of trading with other countries. Both his father and his uncle were merchants who had traveled far.Marco Polo was allowed to go along.
" Returned home to Venice his father company continued its activities and Marco soon became a wealthy merchant."
http://www.answers.com/topic/marco-polo
There is nothing known of Marco Polo traveling to Germany, drac.
"The great Kublai Khan orders junks to be fitted out for the expedition. He gives the Italians messages of goodwill to be delivered to the pope and the kings of Spain, France and England."
He brought back the secrets of gunpowder, the compass, printing or noodles.
In 1470 Anton Koberger opened Europe's first print shop in Nuremberg.
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Sorry m oh wise one.. There is no real record of his going to Germany.. And even if he did, did Germany have advanced textile skills like the Chinese or Egyptians at that time ?
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From all that I have read no he never went to Germany, can't be 100 % sure though because of the reasons mentioned in the post above
We cannot do independent research into Marco Polo's life, because there are no newspaper files or people to interview...:(
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It is possible, britex:
"According to one authority, the Polo family were great nobles originating on the coast of Dalmatia. Niccolo and Maffeo had established a trading outpost on the island of Curzola, off the coast of Dalmatia; it is not certain whether Marco Polo was born there or in Venice in 1254."
From his trading outpost he went in almost all European countries for business.
Today you can find Hotel Marco Polo in Munster, Hamburg and Stuttgart/Germany.
http://www.silk-road.com/artl/marcopolo.shtml