Safar'hā-yi Mārcu Pulu (Majmū'ah-yi tārīkh-i jahān): Persian 1400

In 1295, when Marco Polo returned to Venice with his father Niccolò and his uncle Maffeo after 24 years, they encountered difficulties in finding their old home. These three ragged men, who wore Tatar clothes and had traveled by sea and land for three and a half years to reach Venice from China, had almost forgotten the native language of their city, and after years of speaking in foreign languages and foreign accents, It was difficult for them to speak in Venetian dialect and terms. In 1271, together with Niccolò and Maffeo, who were both merchants, Marco Polo rushed from Venice to the court of Qubilai Qaan, the Mongol emperor. Travel was done by sea and land. The Silk Road and other trade routes were visible throughout Central Asia. When Marco started his long adventure with his father and uncle, he was no more than seventeen years old, but...