Venetian merchant Marco Polo is considered one of the first known medieval Europeans to travel to Asia. Among other things, he visited China twice and claimed to have seen…dragons there. The records of Marco Polo are often subject to legitimate criticism, and some experts believe that he either was not in the countries he indicated at all, or that he did exist but mixed real facts with fictional ones. The first time Marco Polo came to China was in 1266, but it was a short visit, and the second time in 1275, and this time Polo stayed in China for…
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