"When Marco Polo traveled to the East and reported what he had seen, mixing truth with falsehood but in any event telling something of the truth, the men of the West refused to believe him. In the late Medieval Ages his account of his travels was viewed as a book of fables... It was as if occidentals were unable to believe in the reality of the marvels of the Orient."
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Jacques Le Goff, quoted in John M. Hobson. The Eastern Origins of Western Civilisation. New York: Bridge University Press, 2004.
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Marco Polo
1254 – 1324
italienischer Seefahrer und Entdecker
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