Bah Dunabāl-i Mārku'pulu: Persian 1403

"My father chose to return with Mafeo to Kublai Khan and asked me to accompany them. I was overjoyed. At seventeen, I was finally going to experience the great adventure!" Marco Polo was born in Venice in 1254. He left in 1271 with his father, Nicolo, and his uncle, Mafeo, for a long journey in Asia that would take them to the court of Kublai Khan, leader of all the Tartars. With the Great Khan, Marco discovered incredible splendors, men curious about everything, strange customs. He learned to speak Mongolian and soon Kublai entrusted him with missions of trust that would make him visit new lands and, above all, the immense China... They would not return to their native land until twenty-five years after their departure. Marco Polo's incredible journey through Asia, based on his Memoirs: "The Book of Wonders". To discover the history of the great explorers and the Tartar and Chinese civilizations. On the history program for the fifth grade class.