who did marco polo travel with?
Niccolò Polo Nicole Anna Defuseh
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 Marco Polo ( / ˈmɑːrkoʊ ˈpoʊloʊ / ; Italian pronunciation : [ ˈmarko ˈpɔːlo ] ; 1254 – January 8 – 9 , 1324 ) was a Venetian merchant traveller whose travels are recorded in Livres des merveilles du monde ( Book of the Marvels of the World , also known as The Travels of Marco Polo , c . 1300 ) , a book that introduced Europeans to Central Asia and China . 

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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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 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 . 

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 Marco knew four languages , and the family had accumulated a great deal of knowledge and experience that was useful to Kublai . It is possible that he became a government official ; he wrote about many imperial visits to China 's southern and eastern provinces , the far south and Burma . His travels also brought him farther to the Bay of Bengal , where he possibly met and gave one of the earliest accounts of the hostile North Sentinelese tribe . Highly respected and sought after in the Mongolian court , Kublai Khan decided to decline the Polos ' requests to leave China . They became worried about returning home safely , believing that if Kublai died , his enemies might turn against them because of their close involvement with the ruler . In 1292 , Kublai 's great @-@ nephew , then ruler of Persia , sent representatives to China in search of a potential wife , and they asked the Polos to accompany them , so they were permitted to return to Persia with the wedding party — which left that same year from Zaitun in southern China on a fleet of 14 junks . The party sailed to the port of Singapore , travelled north to Sumatra , sailed west to the Point Pedro port of Jaffna under Savakanmaindan and to Pandyan of Tamilakkam . Eventually Polo crossed the Arabian Sea to Hormuz . The two @-@ year voyage was a perilous one — of the six hundred people ( not including the crew ) in the convoy only eighteen had survived ( including all three Polos ) . The Polos left the wedding party after reaching Hormuz and travelled overland to the port of Trebizond on the Black Sea , the present day Trabzon . 
