The Adventures of Marco Polo
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When asked about Marco Polo, people today are more familiar with the game of tag played in a swimming pool than the thirteenth century explorer. But the book,"The travels of Marco Polo" opened Europe's eyes to the Great Mongol Empire. The History Guy recalls the amazing adventures of a man whose travels inspired the Age Of Discovery.
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Years ago when I was in fourth grade I had a wonderful teacher who threw out the normal books and brought in stories and tales of other cultures, people, histories to teach reading, geography, history, social studies & anything else she could think up. That was the first time I heard of Marco Polo and Kublai Khan. She kept my attention & started me on the way to be a life long learner about many things. Thanks Mrs. Junk! Thank you for stirring up an old and fond memory.
I had a teacher like that in English... "You are supposed to write a short story for my class, write it about any subject and have fun. Let me see what you wrote and you'll pass," she told me! It's the first time the topic seemed interesting to me. Now I write for a living!
I had an Air Force colonel for an instructor in high school ROTC. He said, "I want to instill in each of you an insatiable desire for learning." Those sorts of teachers are invaluable.
If she had taught science it would have been Junk Science.
If the History Channel really wanted to be about history, they would hire this guy for a series.
U got that right. For a channel that started with such promise to turn into a commercial cesspool is so sad
@Hunter Bidens Crackpipe That's the last series I watched on History Channel and haven't even watched that in 3 to 4 years.
The History Channel has become the Hitler channel. That's all they know. Remember what TLC, Discovery were supposed to be? Now they are 90 day fiance
he should make a complete series or season and shop it around. its better to own it.
Nooooo!!! Don't do that to The History Guy. Let the History channel wallow in its own "byproducts".
The thing I love is that you are not just a good historian, but a good storyteller. Thanks for what you do.
I regret that I have but one like to click for the history guy.
gregbillman42 ....IKR
If you were a Democrat, you could figure a way around that...
Gary Lankford no current politics please it tends to ruin a good story
Nathan Hale,a badass patriot!
What the actual fu@k are you people commenting on trump and politics for?
Do you not understand this thread is for the reflection of the knowledge that just got dropped on you by the history guy. Say something relevant to the topic and discuss openly.
Went out for gem stones & didn't come back for 16 years. Oldest story in the book.
Cigarettes hadn’t been invented yet ;)
Kinda like Daniel Boone,gone so long he came back to a new baby in the house.
It is amazing to me that most young adults have no idea who Marco Polo was. I must add. My wife who is from Thailand knew who Marco Polo was.
That is fascinating. it is nice to know that history is being taught somewhere.
Only the History Guy can tell a story (or rather, history) that we already know as if it's all brand new.
The Adventures of Marco Polo is definitely history that deserves to be remembered - for all the human explorers today!
Greetings from Australia.
A friend put me on to you. I love your videos and I'm slowly going through your previous work.
Garry.
Thanks! Have fun!
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel where can I find a translation of his actual book? Amazon have a lot of books about Marco Polo, but I can't determine which one is the actual book that you are referring to. Many thanks and great videos!
This is a free version of an English translation of an original translation: archive.org/details/thetravelsofmarcopolo_201912/page/n1/mode/2up
If you're a book reader, check out Gary Jennings 1984 novel "The Journeyer". It's a beast, 800 pages but it's a fictional tale about Marco's life from teenage to old life. I read it as a teenager, and it stays with me still.
Marco Polo having a cellmate who tells him his life story would make a great book sounds a lot like the backstory to The Wolf Of Wall St
Don't for get Mein Kampf. As much as we might wish to.
bobby vee Mein Kampf was written in prison, much like MLK’s Letters From A Birmingham Jail
Prison is a good place to get some writing done, for just about anybody.
Yeah it's not necessarily a new thing 😂
Marco Polo was one of my favorite stories when I was growing up. I checked out a children's level book about his life at the local public library. It might have been the first book I checked out from that library which I used for over 50 years.
Wow, the fine on a late library book over 50 years must be astronomical! ;-)
@@billd.iniowa2263 Winner! You got the joke.:)
@@briangarrow448 Now about the late-fine that's due, Mr. Garrow....
When I was around 9 years old I was on a beach in Eastern Canada. A powerful storm had passed through a few days before. I spotted the barb of an old anchor poking out from the sand. I reported it to some adults in the area (National Park). Later I heard it was an anchor from the Marco Polo sailing ship that sunk in 1883 during a storm. In school I read about the real Marco Polo and always had a fondness for him . It's amazing that some people are never forgotten.
I remember learning about Marco Polo in elementary school. I'm sure his story helped develop my (frustrated) love of travel. Definitely my love of meeting people from other cultures and countries.
Thanks for the wonderful story !
history guy....... absolute icon
I remember the 1982 Marco Polo TV mini series. I was enthralled with it. I don’t know if it holds up, but it’s available on Amazon Prime video. 8+ hours of adventure.
What!? A sailor possibly embellishing a story!? I've never heard of such a thing. Haha!
Embellished? Sounds like another book we know....
Hey why you got to bring sailors into this.
Sailors and those who fish...must be something in water...
@@brianeckland7913 hi Brian Eckland and no how can not bring sailors in to this sailors we're the only one's going any where in those day's now think real hard in those day's how many ways was there to travel most land lovers would only sail from there from there country to another say like England to the new world so back then the only people really travelling we're sailors and I have known real sailors that we're man of might that we're good man well good night Brian Eckland :-)
They ain't called "sea stories" for nothing...
That ad with Polo Marco in the kids swimming pool and the llama peeking over the edge just cracks me up.
There is a fantastic series on Netflix loosely based on the tales of Marco Polo. What incredible costumes and sets!
You should do a video on the Empress of Ireland
A ship wreck that sank in less than 14 minutes killing hundreds.
It's fine
You are gaining around 1000 subscribers a day. You should be at a million by the end of the year!
Another great story. Thanks THG.
Keep teaching we all need to learn the past. History is too important to be history.
If we are doomed to repeat it. I might as well know the playbook.
The legend of the purple cape is so important for understanding world history and nobody knows it,it explains everything once interpreted, everything
One of your best stories....
Excellent work again, thanks History Guy👍
That cover art at 8:20 takes me back. My older cousin had the complete set of Classic Comics.
From another "Fan" in Australia, Thank you both for all you provide on You tube. You both make History interesting, funny, enjoyable and easy to understand and absorb. Please keep up the awesome work! :)
I didn't realize I was a history fan until after I graduated from high school. But, if The History Guy was my 5th grade teacher back in 1977 - I think that would have been different. I love history and they should show and episode of your show once a week to the poor 10 year olds so they can see how fun and compellingly interesting history is. Thanks.
Marco Polo has always been a fascination of mine. Netflix did a series on his time with Kubla Khan. Unfortunately it did not make it but 1 season. It was absolutely fascinating.
Love your videos (as always) thank-you for them! Love from the Baltics (Lithuania & Latvija) 🇱🇹🇱🇻
I watched Great Courses a couple of times. And honestly I think you're a more compelling story teller. I've always thought that properly presented history is the stories of the lives of the people who lived that history. The "college lecture" style seems dry and disassociated from the history they present. Your passion for the subject comes through your intonation and inflection. You let the listener share in your excitement for the subject. Thank you.
I'm very glad you put in how he didn't think he would be believed so he didn't tell as much as he would have liked.
THG. I love the idea of your intro BUT it feels off brand. Your brand has a soft, warm, comforting feel, like your favorite uncle who tells the best stories. The intro you added has a rather steely hard feel which clashes with your historical brand feel. So if you put any weight on my comment....
Intro on videos: I approve.
Style of current intro: Needs softening.
I do agree! It’s nice to change things up once in a while, but you have always been an uplifting guy and the thump kinda feels... distracting. Besides this, I have enjoyed the channel very much in the last few months!!!
I know! When I heard it i thought "wtf is this a gaming channel?, did i click the wrong video?".
It needs something warmer... With pirates!
I concur, a softer intro would be more appropriate
That is it exactly! I wasn't fond of the new intro, but couldn't figure out why. It was a bit harsh.
Love to wake up and see a notification from the history guy
I must put in a good word for Gary Jennings' historical novel The Journeyer which tells the story of Marco Polo in a way we never would have been taught in school.
I like the intro, but I LOVE that tie!
History Guy I've been watching for a long time and learned so much from you. You tell such a great story in every video. That line at the end of the video, said with a twinkle in your eye, brought a smile to my face. Thank you sir.
Greetings from ireland
A great piece. Thank you History Guy!
Another quality episode! Thank you!
They are all of the highest quality. Superb!
I have a 1948 illustrated edition of The Adventures of Marco Polo from my grandparents that I have wanted to read for 40 years since I was a kid. Maybe I should finally read it...
BEST LOGO EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 0:01
Thank you for educating those of us who are hungry for the true history no taught in public schools.
I learned about Marco Polo in grade school although not to this extent. We learned about the Silk Road and some of his adventures. The opening comments about Marco Polo are a sad testament to the lack of education in world history in our schools today. Keep up the good work HG; at least some will learn what a vast and colorful history the world has seen over the many millennia we have inhabited this planet.
I bought a copy of The Travels when I visited Spain. I only read the introduction and I was busy reading two other books that I finished before I landed back in America. I need to read it soon.
Marco Polo was essentially the first topic way back in my early school days as a kid that got me interested in history. Thanks for the refresher! Fascinating times and great adventures!
Love that new THG splash at the start!
Excellent presentation. Really fleshed out what I had learned in history classes (yes, I am that old).
John Anon - I ran into him in the deep end of the pool last week. 🤣
@@navret1707 Bravo! was it a "slam-dunk?" (I was familiar with Marco Polo in both senses, as a pre-teenager @ 1961)
This is the first I have learned of you and I like what I have learned all in 25 minutes I have subed and I will very soon go addict and spend a few days takeing in all I can I'm 57 and in 2 months and 2 days il be 58 I expect I will die a great deal more knowledgeable and knowing I have spent a good part of time liveing a very fulfilling time I have left ! Thank you sir .....
WOW, What an intro!
Delightful. Thank you
The real story of "The Old Man of the mountain" would be a great story to cover.
The Templars suppressed it.
I remember being taught a little bit about Marco Polo in school when I was a kid but all I recall is that he introduced pasta to Europe (a myth), as well as porcelain and gunpowder.
That new opening was .... Startling! 😁😳😂
Wow! Now that’s an epitaph! ...Have not told half of what I’ve seen. Great story. Thank you for your presentation.
if you feel the need i could listen far longer than a few hours. thank you for your efforts.
When I was in my senior history class at West Georgia, the theme was first time encounters. We read Polo, as well as De Vaca. It was an interesting course, and got deep into the questions of how European contact changed certain societies, both the originating culture and the one that it had come into contact with.
Matthew Jones, suggest you read " The Man Who Loved China" by Simon Winchester. It's about a massive effort by a British Scientist to document and catalogue the technology the discoveries of China, going back several thousand years.
whoa! New opening graphics!!
It's a little disconcerting that Marco Polo is fading into forgotten history thanks to the History Guy for keeping that from happening
He spoke about the big horned sheep with 5 or 6 widths of a hand in the lenght of their horn, no one belived him then, later they saw them . Marco Polo sheep, holy grail of many amhunters on explorations in the far east and high altitude mountains it is.
Too much work for a deer with ram horns. :) Besides I'm a flat lander!
Whole name on the sheep is Marco Polo Ovensis , Altai Argali is another one.
Historyguy ,Elgin Gates friend of Roy Weatherby would be good episode about one day also, he ventured a lot in sheep mountains far east.
@@MrPh30 , white guys and sheep; might have to put an R rating on that THG episode!
I LOVE (!!!!) the new intro!!!
Great work as always. First time get to see it so close to being uploaded. Thankful for your efforts. Channels like yours help us lifelong learners!
Great video about Marco Polo.
I know how Marco Polo feels. My wife doesn't believe half of what I tell her either.
Yea but you don't have Mr Polos credentials
@@russelmurray9268 Right. And he didn't have to deal with my wife either!
I think all husbands would agree with you! 🤣
I got a copy of The Adventures of Marco Polo and started reading it and man, it is very interesting.
HELL YEAH, love that blue bow tie intro. Brand yourself sir, your content is what people want!
Thanks. The THG with bowtie has been the channel watermark (bottom right corner) on every video for a couple years now.
And now I know more about Marco Polo than I learned in my high school World History class!!
Thanks for another story , in history !
Adventure and excitement are the trade marks of a Great Story Teller, such as The History Guy. Well done. Third time watching and dreaming of my youth as we explored our land like Marco Polo might have.
As always thank you for the great videos!
I remember learning about Marco Polo in History class. It mostly covered how his travels brought spices and goods back to Europe and encouraged trade between China and Europe.
Which is an interesting story, as the Silk Road became too unsafe for travel shortly after his return.
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel , with improved maps and navigation techniques came faster, more efficient sea routes to not only China but the Spice Islands. "Nathaniels' Nutmeg" details the geopolitics that came into play as Portugal, Britain and other nations vied for several of the more lucrative crops. Hmm, since your THG episodes about food items like peanuts and potatoes have been so popular, you should do some episodes about cloves, nutmeg, mace and other spices.
Love, love, Love, this. There was a series on Netflix on Marco Polo. Very loose on specific details. But very close in feeling. Unfortunately it was cut after two years. You guys should definitely check it out.
“Life long learner”. That is just an amazing description of oneself. Never heard that before. People have often asked me to describe myself and I never knew what to say. I now have my answer.... and simple reason why this is my favorite channel.
Informative and fascinating. Thank you THG!
What a wonderful educational business.. The credibility and goodwill will reach many more people than the tv personalities who had a platform for decades. Your videos will be remembered for decades to come. Great to see good people succeed 😊.
Neat new opening.
All good stories do have Pirates!! Thx!!
I love the Marco Polo commercial!
I first read the travels when I was in 8th or 9th grade, first "history" book I read that wasn't American history and helped get me into world history and medieval history along with two pc games called age of empires ii and civilization iii, those games and the travels did more to stimulate my interest in history than any education I received lol... I found I learn history best as an autodidact rather than as a student in a formal context
Fascinating story. And well told
Super interesting!
Italian? I don't get it. With a name like Marc O'polo he was obviously Irish.
just like Thor's daddy, O'din
A distant cousin to Paddy O'Furniture.
he was venetian
@@raydunakin LOL
@@marvinsilverman4394 he was BLIND????
Hello from Ireland. Loved the starting graphic 👍🏻👍🏻
Nice way to start the day!
This was a good one! Good job!
Great one! I’d love to see a follow up on Columbus!
Haven’t thought of Marco (with the exception of when the app is mentioned) in a lot of years. Thanks for the refresher!
intense new opening. i like it!
That was pretty damn good, thanks.
You are truly the best of the internet. This device can teach!
10:00 That's describing a Hashashin fortress. I believe there was a major one in northern Persia and also one around the Levant.
Thanks for the post. Marco.....
Polo....
Wow ... ... ... Very impressive new opening.
Nice video, thank you. There is an excellent book by Frances Wood called “Did Marco Polo go to China?” which examines the story in great detail and is well worth reading. Some other historians disagree with her conclusions but I think they are very convincing. The fact that Marco Polo never mentioned the drinking of tea, the use of chopsticks or the tiny bound feet of Chinese ladies suggests that he never was in China. She also examined the Chinese records of the time and could find no mention of Polo although other foreigners were recorded fully. And as to his description of an island where the people’s heads were below their shoulders......
THG prefer not mentioning objection or criticism by mainland Chinese scholars attention Marco Polo's tale.
THG, Infographics Show & Simple History are skirting over Japan's atrocities of Chemical & Biological warfare.
What an amazing. I love the ending.
Interesting you brought up America’s General Wesley Clarke, was fortunate to hear the man speak and found his book “Waging Modern War” a tad bit dry but extremely insightful into our recent history of how difficult it is to manage a modern battlefield. Even if you seemingly have the upper hand, everything is not always as it seems behind the scenes. A true tactical leader as much as he was a politician when he needed to be. Love to see something, sometime about the man, perhaps his involvement in Yugoslavia civil conflict? Great presentation as always, my kids love you, keep up the amazing work please!
How can it be that there are people who are unfamiliar with Marco Polo? Do they live under a rock? I still remember the lessons about his travels in primary school around 1960. I remember the discussion of his descriptions of elephants in Burma, Brahmin cows in India, and the court of Kublai Khan and how Marco worked as an ambassador for the khan. It was fascinating stuff, and his adventures brought geography and history alive. Marco Polo was also a popular character for children’s books back then. Not knowing about Marco Polo is like not knowing about Robin Hood.
I have such a hunger for the Bible and History that I wish I'd had when I was younger. Growing up in Northern Va., I was always around Civil War relics and locations, living up and down the area and almost to Richmond. But, the point is that I love History more so, now, than ever before. I only wish I'd had a few good History Teachers, even ones which would point out that we were in the crux, the crossroads of History, living in Virginia!!
Yeah, I hear you, on that. I also grew up in Northern Virginia. I never was interested in history throughout grade school and high school, but somehow, history would not leave me alone. I wound up with a minor in history (had a great college professor), married to an amateur historian and, once I found THG, subscribed to a history channel! Maybe I just like history presented in an interesting way!