History In Five Minutes Podcast
HFM 058 | Explorers that Pushed the Boundaries of the Known World, Part 1: Marco Polo – Opening Europe’s Window to the East
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 0:08:09
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Synopsis
Marco Polo is more than a game you play at the YMCA pool -- he spent 20 years traveling throughout the farthest domains of the Mongolian Empire, wrote a best-selling travel account, and permanently altered Europe's mental map of the world. Find out in this episode how he helped usher in the Age of Exploration two centuries later. Like this podcast? Click here to subscribe to the podcast via iTunes TRANSCRIPT Click here to download the transcript to Episode 58 (PDF)
