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Marco Polo
By Sharon Fabian |
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1 Marco Polo grew up in the Middle Ages in Venice. At the time, most people in Europe didn't know much about the rest of the world. Travel was much slower than it is today, and very few people traveled to other continents. The printing press had not yet been invented, so there were not many books available to read about far away places. However, Marco Polo grew up knowing more about other parts of the world than most young men. Venice was a large trading center on the Mediterranean, and his family was in the business of trading with other countries. Both his father and his uncle were merchants who had traveled far.