The journey of Marco Polo through the country of China. One of the few travels of Marco Polo was in one of the documents. Reading through this document made me really think how awesome China was or..."seem" to be in the 12-1300's. There were several stories within the document where he describes the great cities, and beautiful lakes. Was it really as he described it to be?
I mean, even the scholars mentioned that some of his exaggerated descriptions. For example the "12,000" bridges of stone that were so far from the ground. Maybe he was pulling my leg or something. I know that China is a big country and all but, 12,000 bridges just seem too real.
I wondered if he even actually ever travel to China? Maybe he had to make up these spectacular stories to bing up his popularity among other scholars. Doesn't sound very different from people nowadays. I guess we will never know for sure if he ever did or not.
Now going away from that story, I wanted to talk about one of the visual sources. The one in particular was the image that shown the confrontation between thieves and merchants on the silk road. Its a pretty interesting image I might say.
The artwork had some very eye catching details and imagery. It almost made the characters look like their were walking on a large map, with everything is close to each other. Overall I thought it was a great visual .
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