How Marco Polo s book has had an impact in the West History and Society Workbook Title 8

Before the Travels of Marco Polo, or more precisely before the 13th century, the political, economic, and cultural exchanges between China and the West were indirectly linked through the bridge of Central Asia. In this kind of Sino-Western exchanges, China has always taken a positive attitude and made efforts to understand and understand places outside China, especially the Western civilized world. The earliest can be traced back to King Mu of Zhou's western tour.

Although the story of King Mu of Zhou's western tour is full of absurdity and mythology, it at least reflects that the Chinese have begun to understand and understand the West, and after Zhang Qian passed through the Western Regions during the period of Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty, a "Silk Road" from China to Europe through Central Asia appeared, and China has a further understanding and understanding of the Western world. The Tang Dynasty was the heyday of China's feudal society, and the economy and culture reached unprecedented prosperity, and a large number of Western merchants came to China, and China's understanding of the Western world deepened. However, until the 13th century, the exchanges between China and the West only stayed on the economic ties dominated by the first, and there was a lack of direct contact and understanding.

Before the 13th century, Europe's understanding of China was limited to hearsay, and their knowledge and understanding of China was very superficial. Therefore, Europeans are full of mystery and curiosity about the Oriental world. "Marco Polo's Travels" exaggerated and even mythical descriptions of the Oriental world aroused the curiosity of Europeans about the Oriental world.

This, in turn, has consciously or unconsciously promoted direct exchanges between China and the West. Since then, a new era of direct political, economic, and cultural exchanges between China and the West has begun. Marco Polo is a symbol of the times.

The Travels of Marco Polo directly or indirectly opened up a new era of direct contact and contact between China and the West, and also brought the dawn of a new century to medieval Europe. It has been confirmed that "The Travels of Marco Polo" has had a huge impact on the world, and its positive effect cannot be erased. Europeans began to think that the East was the world, causing a wave.

Interested the West in the East.

The publication of Marco Polo's book greatly promoted the West's yearning for the East, aroused the West's interest in the East, and also played a major role in the opening of new shipping routes.

This made Europeans more eager to come to the East and plunder the wealth. This is one of the conditions for the opening up of new shipping routes.

The opening of new shipping routes has made the world more closely connected, and the world has begun to move from dispersion to unity.

The desire of the Western world to get ** led to the opening of new shipping routes!

After Marco Polo's travelogue came out at the end of the 13th century, it was circulated and reprinted by the general public because of its novelty and gratification, and became a very popular reading book at that time, as it was called"One of the world's greatest wonders", the impact is enormous. It opened the geographical horizon of the Europeans in the Middle Ages, showed them a vast and rich land, country and civilization, aroused their yearning for the East, and also helped the Europeans to rush through the darkness of the Middle Ages and move towards modern civilization. Some people of insight in the academic world have enriched their minds and enriched their writings with the latest knowledge it provides.

For example, the 1375 map of Catalan, Spain, is to break through the traditional concept, abandon religious fallacy, and take Marco Polo's travels as the main reference book, the India, Central Asia and Far East parts of the map are all based on the work "Marco Polo's Travels", which became a map with high scientific value in the Middle Ages, and later maps were mostly based on it.