Marco Polo's systematic observations of nature, anthropology, and geography are another example of studying human variation across space.

Illustration of Marco Polo's arrival in a China | Chinese city

Marco Polo's other legacies include Venice Marco Polo Airport, the Marco Polo sheep, and several books and films.

The exact time and place of Marco Polo's birth are unknown, and current theories are mostly conjectural.

One possible place of birth is Venice's former contrada of San Giovanni Crisostomo, which is sometimes presented by historians as the birthplace, and it is generally accepted that Marco Polo was born in the Venetian Republic with most biographers pointing towards Venice itself as Marco Polo's home town.

Meanwhile, Marco Polo's mother died, and he was raised by an aunt and uncle.

While Polo's book describes paper money and the burning of coal, it fails to mention the Great Wall of China, chopsticks, and footbinding, making skeptics wonder if Marco Polo had really gone to China, or wrote his book based on hearsay.

The Great Walls were built to keep out northern invaders, whereas the ruling dynasty during Marco Polo's visit were those very northern invaders.

Researchers note that the Great Wall familiar to us today is a Ming structure, post-dating Marco Polo's travels by more than two centuries.

Due to the Venetian law stating that the day ends at sunset, the exact date of Marco Polo's death cannot be determined, but it was between the sunsets of January 8 and 9, 1324.

The tales of the fida ' is training collected from anti-Ismaili historians and orientalists writers were confounded and compiled in Marco Polo's account, in which he described a " secret garden of paradise ".

Map of Marco Polo's travels in 1271 – 1295.

Moreover, the siege had already ended before Marco Polo's arrival in China.

Doubtless it was Marco Polo's description that inspired Antonio Pigafetta, one of Magellan's companions, who wrote or had ghost-written an embroidered account of the circumglobal voyage ; in Pigafetta's account the home grounds of the roc were the seas of China.

In addition to Marco Polo's account of the rukh in 1298, Chou Ch ' ű-fei ( Zhōu Qùfēi ) in 1178 told of a large island off Africa with birds large enough to use their quills as water reservoirs ( Pearson and Godden 2002: 121 ).

According to Marco Polo's Travels, the war between the Prester and Genghis started when Genghis, new ruler of the rebellious Tartars, asked for the hand of Prester John's daughter in marriage.

* 1266-Mongol leader Khan sends Marco Polo's father and uncle, Niccolo and Matteo Polo, back to Europe with a request to the Pope to send 100 Christian missionaries ( only two responded and one died before reaching Mongol territory )

It was the only product mentioned in Marco Polo's brief account and similarly impressed the Arab trader Sulayman several centuries earlier.

As with other European languages, English historically had a variety of names for Korea derived from Marco Polo's rendering of Goryeo, " Cauli " ( see Revival of the names above ).

Originally, Catai was the name applied by Central and Western Asians and Europeans to northern China ; it obtained wide currency in Europe after the publication of Marco Polo's book ( he referred to southern China as Manji ).

The objects in " Cataio " are based on Marco Polo's description and include the capital Khanbaliq | Cambalu, Xanadu | Xandu, and a Marco Polo Bridge | marble bridge

It is unknown when the first spectacles were made, but the British scientist and historian Sir Joseph Needham stated in his research that the ancient Chinese invented the earliest eyeglasses 1000 years ago and were also mentioned by the Venetian Marco Polo in his account of his travels in ancient China.

The tales of the fida ’ is ’ training collected from anti-Ismaili historians and orientalists writers were confounded and compiled in Marco Polo ’ s account, in which he described a “ secret garden of paradise ”.

Aepyornis maximus is commonly known as the ' elephant bird ', a term that apparently originated from Marco Polo's account of the rukh in 1298, although he was apparently referring to an eagle-like bird strong enough to " seize an elephant with its talons ".

The first western account of the breed comes from Marco Polo, who mentioned chickens with fur-like plumage in his Asian travelogues in the 13th century.

The earliest surviving written account of Silkies comes from Marco Polo, who wrote of a furry chicken in the 13th century, during his travels in Asia.

The earliest surviving account by a European who had visited the Southern Hemisphere is that of Marco Polo ( who, on his way home in 1292, sailed south of the Malay Peninsula ).

However, modern scholars debate how much of the account is accurate and some have questioned whether or not Marco Polo ever actually traveled to the court or was just repeating stories that he had heard from other travellers.

* The Journeyer ( 1984 ): An account of the travels of Marco Polo to the Far East.

* In 1997, Bernard and his brother David wrote an article ( available here ) questioning the authenticity of City of Light, a book that purported to be an account translated by David Selbourne of the voyage by Italian Jacob D ' Ancona to 13th Century China, years before Marco Polo.

Marco Polo, who visited China's Kublai Khan's court, traveled in 1292 through Kollam on his return journey to Venice, and gave an interesting account of the flourishing port of Kollam ( coilum, as he called it ) and its trade relations inter connectivity with China in the east and Europe to the west.

His account is one of the masterpieces of medieval geographical literature comparable to that of Marco Polo.

The term " Bezant " was used by Venetians to refer to the Egyptian gold dinar and Marco Polo referred to the bezant in the account of his travels to East Asia when describing the currencies of the Yuan Empire.

His account of Timur and his campaigns is misty, often incorrect, and sometimes fabulous: nor can von Hammer's parallel between Marco Polo and Schiltberger be sustained without large reservations.

Either before going out to Malabar as bishop, or during a later visit to the west, Jordanus probably wrote his Mirabilia, which from internal evidence can only be fixed within the period 1329-1338 ; in this work he furnished the best account of Indian regions, products, climate, manners, customs, fauna and flori given by any European in the Middle Ages-superior even to Marco Polo's.

Although there is a probable reference to the lake in Marco Polo's account, the first European known to have visited the lake was the British naval officer John Wood in 1838.

With Richard Lewontin, Gould wrote an influential 1979 paper entitled, " The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm ", which introduced the architectural term " spandrel " into evolutionary biology.

In 2010, professors of statistics Marco Riani and Anthony C. Atkinson wrote in a scientific paper that the statistical analysis of the raw dates obtained from the three laboratories for the radiocarbon test suggests the presence of contamination in some of the samples.

One of the better references is a paper, " Cellular Neural Networks: A Review " written for the Neural Nets WIRN Vietri 1993, by Valerio Cimagalli and Marco Balsi.

In the 13th century, paper money became known in Europe through the accounts of travelers, such as Marco Polo and William of Rubruck.

Construction, however, stalled almost totally until 1480, due to lack of money and ideas: the most notable works of this period were the tombs of Marco Carelli and Pope Martin V ( 1424 ) and the windows of the apse ( 1470s ), of which those extant portray St. John the Evangelist, by Cristoforo de ' Mottis, and Saint Eligius and San John of Damascus, both by Niccolò da Varallo.

Marco inherits some money which he uses to pay for Uncle Victor's funeral.

When Effing dies, leaving money to Fogg, Marco and Kitty Wu set up a house together in Chinatown.

After paying the funeral costs, Marco realizes that very little of the money that Uncle Victor gave him is left.

Marco feels very bad about living at Zimmer's costs, so he finally persuades him to let him do a French translation for him to earn some money.

* Both Paul and Marco lost a lot of weight after running out of money.

Marco Sanudo, with his uncle Enrico Dandolo's and the Latin Emperor's blessings, armed with his own money eight galleys that had been entrusted to him in order to fight the Genoans.

In the evening, the rich cousin of Marco's friend Gibreel makes a bet with an Iranian acquaintance: they give some money to Marco and Gibreel, go to the casino, and bet on which of the two will win more.

In Tibet, according to Marco Polo, cakes of salt displayed a likeness of the ruler and were used as money.

A 1968 CIA report stated that: " With some assistance from Cuba, the small band, under the leadership of Marco Antonio Yon Sosa, engaged in sporadic terrorist acts, including harassment of communications lines, buses, and railroad tracks, pillaging of military supply points and plantations for money and arms, assassination of army collaborators, and attacks on commercial and official installations.

When Colleoni bequeathed the money for his statue, he stipulated that it should be erected in the Piazza San Marco, but the Venetian state could not allow this and compromised by having it installed near the Scuola San Marco outside the church of SS Giovanni è Paolo, where it stands today.