This Venetian explorer was the first known European to visit what is now Thailand & Vietnam
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Marco Polo - Student Resources in Context - Gale  Marco Polo was an Italian explorer who traveled overland to the court of .... Marco was even more impressed with the imperial capital, with its famous ... Along the way, he passed near the borders of Tibet, and was the first European to ... Along the way he visited the Kingdom of Champa in what is now Vietnam, Thailand,...
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Famous Explorers | Rough Guides  Dec 18, 2014 ... 9 famous explorers whose travels put yours to shame ... In the thirteenth century, Venetian Marco Polo was famed for his travels along the Silk Road. One of the first Europeans to visit China, he left Venice in 1271 and ... At just 23 he explored Abyssinia and the Aussa Sultanate (both now part of Ethiopia).
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Chronology of European exploration of Asia - Wikipedia  This is a chronology of the early European exploration of Asia. Contents. [hide]. 1 First wave of ... 226: A Roman diplomat or merchant lands in northern Vietnam and visits ... In 1266, they reach Kublai Khan's seat at Dadu, now known as Beijing, China ... 1420-1436: Travels of the Italian explorer Niccol Da Conti to India and...
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Chapter 13 - Stamford High School  Early European explorers sought gold in Africa then began to trade slaves. ... was one of the first steps toward today's world economy. ... Thai capital. 1630 .... They could now turn their .... The Spanish conquerors of the Americasknown ..... mainland Southeast Asia, from Burma in the west to Vietnam in the east, king-.
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Marco Polo - the man who brought China to Europe | Europeana Blog  Jan 9, 2014 ... Although he was not the first European to travel to China, he was. ... Italian explorer Marco Polo was born on 15th September 1254 and died on the 8th or 9th January 1324. We're not sure which because in Venetian law the day ends at sunset ... The prison was in what is called now Palazzo San Giorgio:...
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Explorers of the Americas - EnchantedLearning.com  He was the first European to see the eastern part of the Pacific Ocean (in ... was a Spanish explorer who sailed to North America from Spain, leaving in 1527. ... His patron was King Manuel I of Portugal, who sent him on an expedition to India. ... of San Francisco), Cermenon named the nearby bay San Francisco (it is now...
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Marco Polo - Journalist, Explorer - Biography.com  Jul 8, 2014 ... Marco Polo was an explorer and merchant from Venice. ... Finally, after four years of travel, the Polos reached China and Kublai Khan, who was...
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Marco Polo - Journalist, Explorer - Biography.com  Jul 8, 2014 ... Marco Polo was an explorer and merchant from Venice. He was hosted by Kublai Khan at his palace, Xanadu, and traveled throughout much of Asia. ... Finally, after four years of travel, the Polos reached China and Kublai Khan, ... There is no evidence outside his famous book that he traveled so far east.
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Due to its many canals, this Thai capital has been called the Venice ...  Jul 6, 2016 ... Due to its many canals, this Thai capital has been called the Venice of Asia # Quiz # Question. video. 0:28 0 likes, 0 dislikes. No views.
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This Is How A Guy Traveled Through Southeast Asia On Just $10 A ...  Aug 19, 2015 ... He first got the travel bug on a backpacking trip through Europe when ... He landed in Bangkok, Thailand with $3,500, and then went on to ... During his time in Southeast Asia, Hatton paid for accommodation only about a dozen times. ... on his crackly television and messed around with his two greyhounds.
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John Cabot | Italian explorer | Britannica.com  Cabot moved to Venice in 1461, or possibly earlier, and became a citizen of that city in 1476. ... In 1496 Cabot made a voyage from Bristol with one ship, but he was forced to .... After the news of Christopher Columbus' famous trip to the Americas ... An Italian explorer sailing for England, John Cabot was the first European to...
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BBC - Travel - Exploring Bangkok's canals  Aug 29, 2012 ... Known as the Venice of the East during much of the 19th Century, the waterways that still crisscross the Thai capital serve as living cultural and historical relics. ... its waterways are the true symbols of a city that was known as the Venice ... Today, many of the khlongs (canals) have been filled in and paved...
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Vasco da Gama - Wikipedia  Vasco da Gama, 1st Count of Vidigueira was a Portuguese explorer and the first European to reach India by sea. His initial voyage to India (14971499) was the first to link Europe and Asia ... Unopposed access to the Indian spice routes boosted the economy of the Portuguese Empire, which was previously based along...
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Vasco da Gama - Wikipedia  Vasco da Gama, 1st Count of Vidigueira was a Portuguese explorer and the first European to ... Da Gama's discovery of the sea route to India was significant and opened the way ... Statue of Vasco da Gama at his birthplace, Sines, Portugal ... prove the link between the findings of Dias and those of da Covilh and de Paiva,...
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1421: The Year a Chinese Muslim Discovered America - IslamiCity  1421: The Year a Chinese Muslim Discovered America ... The British submarine engineer and historian Gavin Menzies gave an .... Admiral Zheng He ... At each country Zheng He visited, he was to present gifts from the emperor and to exact ... the fleet threaded its way through the Straits of Malacca, stopping at the large...
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J! Archive - Show #607, aired 1987-04-07  Due to its many canals, this Thai capital has been called "the Venice of Asia". $100, 26. Another version has him asleep under a haycock...
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19 Days Classic Myanmar, Cambodia and Vietnam Tour - Indochina ...  With 19 days, the trip covers all famous destinations in Myanmar (Burma), Cambodia and Vietnam. The first country is Myanmar with the awesome pagodas and...
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Traveling from North Thailand to Vietnam through Laos by land ...  Hi friends, Me and my wife will be travelling in north Thailand beginning in October this year while our next location is Vietnam (we plan to do Vietnam from north ... to Khmers what "wearing pointy hats" is to other South-east Asians, which .... Virgin Islands, U.S., Wallis and Futuna, Western Sahara, Yemen...
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Vasco da Gama facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com ...  1460-1524) was the first to travel by sea from Portugal to India. ... When he was commissioned for his famous voyage, he was a gentleman at the court of King Manuel I. ... to cooperate with da Gama and lent him the services of the famous Indian pilot Ibn ... A Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama, 1497-1499 (1898).
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Thailand Explore | Thailand | Northern Smile Travel  Within its enormous grounds is the most exotic Buddhist temple and at the heart of ... revered of religious objects in Thailand called Phra Kaew (or Emerald Buddha). ... Founded in 1350, Ayutthaya is a city of canals and temples, built at the junction of ... Continue to Lampang and visit Wat Phrathat Lampangluang, the most...
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J! Archive - Show #607, aired 1987-04-07  Due to its many canals, this Thai capital has been called "the Venice of Asia" ... Since 1578, this city has been the home to the Shroud of Turin...