According to Henry Yale, the great geographer, Marco Polo was the first traveler to trace a route across the whole longitude of Asia, naming and describing kingdom after kingdom and his measuring distances by days journey has turned out for later generations of explorers to be remarkably accurate. The books were read with great interest by Prince Henry, the navigator of Portugal, who searched for a route to Asia around Africa and Columbus. Some of the information in his books were incorporated in some important maps of the later Middle Ages and the 14th and 15th centuries. Born in Venice, Italy, Marco Pol received little recognition from the geographers of his time.
The Santa Maria, the Pinta, and the Nina and along a book called “The Travels of Marco Polo,” that Columbus had read with excitement that drew his interest to attempt to reach the far east.Much credit should go to Marco Polo who had received little recognition as a world explorer. Subsidized by Spain’s Queen Isabella with 88 ment and three sailing ships. 3, 1492 with his expedition from Palos, Spain. Italian navigator Christopher Columbus believe that the world was round, set sail on Aug. The month of October is known as Italian month as the historic date of Oct.
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