after coming off the silk road, what was marco polo's first impression of china, make it descriptive please!!
2006-06-24 00:33:52 · 8 answers · asked by alex_kate92 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
Marco Polo traveled in great deal in China. He was amazed with China's enormous power, great wealth, and complex social structure. China under the Yuan (The Mongol Empire) dynasty was a huge empire whose internal economy dwarfed that of Europe. He reported that Iron manufacture was around 125,000 tons a year (a level not reached in Europe before the 18th century) and salt production was on a prodigious scale: 30,000 tons a year in one province alone. A canal-based transportation system linked China's huge cities and markets in a vast internal communication network in which paper money and credit facilities were highly developed. The citizens could purchase paperback books with paper money, eat rice from fine porcelain bowls and wear silk garments, lived in prosperous city that no European town could match.
Kublai Khan appointed Marco Polo as an official of the Privy Council in 1277 and for 3 years he was a tax inspector in Yanzhou, a city on the Grand Canal, northeast of Nanking. He also visited Karakorum and part of Siberia. Meanwhile his father and uncle took part in the assault on the town of Siang Yang Fou, for which they designed and constructed siege engines. He frequently visited Hangzhou, another city very near Yangzhou. At one time Hangzhou was the capital of the Song dynasty and had a beautiful lakes and many canals, like Marco's hometown, Venice. Marco fell in love with it.
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2006-06-24 03:00:29 · answer #1 · answered by ♥♫♥ÇHÅTHÜ®ÏKÃ♥♫♥ 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Silk Road Marco Polo
2016-12-16 11:31:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wonderful, He did'nt return home for more than 25yrs During which time he was in the service of the mogul empire
2006-06-24 02:47:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He probably looked around and said: "Boy! Does this place SUCK".
2006-06-24 00:37:58 · answer #4 · answered by AL 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.libraryvideo.com/guides/D6631.pdf
try this site, although you need to be able to read PDFs
2006-06-24 00:40:17 · answer #5 · answered by Gabe 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
he thought the chinese food was pretty good
2006-06-24 00:35:55 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's crouded!!!
2006-06-24 00:36:10 · answer #7 · answered by Yagami 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
he loved it
2016-04-11 14:22:17 · answer #8 · answered by Kay 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋