The Travels of Marco Polo
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Oct 16, 2026
Ian PlimerGUEST
And what it's really saying is that the value of money has gone down and we are buying less for our money.
Ian PlimerGUEST
Now, Marco Polo knew about that in his book, The Travels of Marco Polo in 1300.
Ian PlimerGUEST
He was absolutely gobsmacked after he'd had his 28 years of travel and had been to Cathay, China, and he was gobsmacked that people would give up their gold, their gemstones and their pearls to the state and in return they'd get a piece of mulberry bark that was stained and different sizes and colours for each denomination and signed by the Kublai Khan.
Ian PlimerGUEST
And he couldn't believe how stupid people were giving up real
Ian PlimerGUEST
And what it's really saying is that the value of money has gone down and we are buying less for our money.
Ian PlimerGUEST
Now, Marco Polo knew about that in his book, The Travels of Marco Polo in 1300.
Ian PlimerGUEST
He was absolutely gobsmacked after he'd had his 28 years of travel and had been to Cathay, China.
Ian PlimerGUEST
And he was gobsmacked that people would give up their gold, their gemstones and their pearls to the state and in return they'd get a piece of mulberry bark that was stained in different sizes and colours for each denomination and signed by the Kublai Khan.
Ian PlimerGUEST
And what it's really saying is that the value of money has gone down and we are buying less for our money.
Ian PlimerGUEST
Now, Marco Polo knew about that in his book, The Travels of Marco Polo in 1300.
Ian PlimerGUEST
He was absolutely gobsmacked after he'd had his 28 years of travel and had been to Cathay, China.
Ian PlimerGUEST
And he was gobsmacked that people would give up their gold, their gemstones and their pearls to the state and in return they'd get a piece of mulberry bark that was stained in different sizes and colours for each denomination and signed by the Kublai Khan.
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Esta noche vamos a viajar a un lugar lejano, a un lugar antiguo, a un lugar que cambió por completo la comprensión que el mundo tenía de sí mismo.
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Vamos a sumergirnos en la vida y los viajes de Marco Polo, un mercader veneciano que dejó su hogar siendo adolescente y no regresó durante un cuarto de siglo.
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Antes de que te pongas cómodo, tómate un momento para darle me gusta a este video y suscribirte si de verdad disfrutas quedarte dormido escuchando historia.
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Cuéntame en los comentarios de dónde eres y a qué hora estás escuchando esto.
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Juntos crearon un libro.
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El libro se llamó "Il Milione", que se traduce como "El millón", un título que probablemente significaba originalmente algo parecido a "El libro de un millón de historias", o hacía referencia a que las descripciones de Marco eran tan numerosas que parecían multiplicarse sin fin.
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En otros idiomas, se hizo conocido como "Los viajes de Marco Polo".
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Fue revolucionario.
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The book was called Il Milione, which translates as "The Million," a title that probably originally meant something like "The Book of a Million Stories," or referred to the fact that Marco's descriptions were so numerous that they seemed to multiply endlessly.
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In other languages, it became known as The Travels of Marco Polo.
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It was revolutionary.
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It was the first complete account of Asia written by a European who had actually been there.
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It shaped the way merchants planned their expeditions.
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It was possibly the most influential travel account ever written.
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Perhaps the most famous example is Christopher Columbus, who carried a copy of The Travels of Marco Polo with him during his voyages across the Atlantic.
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Columbus read Marco's descriptions of the wealth and splendor of the East.
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But while he was imprisoned, he told his story to another prisoner, a writer named Rustichello da Pisa, who put it in writing.
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The resulting book, called The Travels of Marco Polo, or sometimes The Book of the Wonders of the World, became the narrative of the most influential travels of the medieval period.
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Describía China de formas que los europeos jamás habían escuchado.
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La riqueza, la sofisticación, la enorme escala de todo aquello.
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But while he was imprisoned, he told his story to another prisoner, a writer named Rusticello da Pisa, who wrote it down.
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The resulting book, called The Travels of Marco Polo, or sometimes The Book of the Marvels of the World, became the most influential travel narrative of the medieval period.
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It described China in ways Europeans had never heard before.
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The wealth, the sophistication, the enormous scale of everything.