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 Marco Polo is a television drama series about Marco Polo 's early years in the court of Kublai Khan which premiered on Netflix in December 2014 . 

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 He spent several months of his imprisonment dictating a detailed account of his travels to a fellow inmate , Rustichello da Pisa , who incorporated tales of his own as well as other collected anecdotes and current affairs from China . The book soon spread throughout Europe in manuscript form , and became known as The Travels of Marco Polo . It depicts the Polos ' journeys throughout Asia , giving Europeans their first comprehensive look into the inner workings of the Far East , including China , India , and Japan . 

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 Marco Polo a joint NBC and RAI TV miniseries broadcast in the early 1980s , was filmed inside the Forbidden City . Note , however , that the present Forbidden City did not exist in the Yuan dynasty , when Marco Polo met Kublai Khan . 

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 Marco Polo 's travels may have had some influence on the development of European cartography , ultimately leading to the European voyages of exploration a century later . The 1453 Fra Mauro map was said by Giovanni Battista Ramusio ( disputed by historian / cartographer Piero Falchetta , in whose work the quote appears ) to have been partially based on the one brought from Cathay by Marco Polo : 

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 The television miniseries , Marco Polo ( 1982 ) , featuring Ken Marshall and Ruocheng Ying , and directed by Giuliano Montaldo , depicts Polo 's travels , won two Emmy Awards , and was nominated for six more . 
