"I saw a unicorn. A little fatter than I expected" will never not be pertinent.

@seventhsky1056

4 жыл бұрын

It was probably a rhino...People back in the days always thought rhinos are unicorns.

@TazTheYellow

4 жыл бұрын

@@seventhsky1056 Not to be rude, but some advice for the future is that it's usually beneficial to finish watching the video before posting a comment.

@neutronalchemist3241

4 жыл бұрын

Actually the depiction he gives of the rhino is very accurate, and it's easy to recognise a Sumatran Rhinoceros in it. (hairs like a buffalo, feet like an elephant, a big and black horn, the head of a boar that it keeps pointed to the ground, he loves to stay in the mud)

@chiangchengkooi9791

4 жыл бұрын

Some species of rhino in Asia got only 1 horn.

@BradyPostma

4 жыл бұрын

It's still a fascinating line, no matter the sensible explaination.

"I have not told *half* of what I saw" -the final words of Marco Polo. I get chills every time I read them.

@ghostbl33d65

4 жыл бұрын

"I have not told you half of what I saw!". (Dies) (Thoughts before death)..."Thank the lord they did not ask if i told them all of what I saw!"

@noahjohnson935

4 жыл бұрын

@@ghostbl33d65 "I would be dying for a week just to get the first little bit done"

@blee04524

4 жыл бұрын

'Im still figuring out the later half of the story'

@mrrey3481

4 жыл бұрын

I kinda guess he got a big-ass load of stories about women, drinking, and all kind of messed up things going on around that country

@polkka7797

4 жыл бұрын

Corrupt Crooked golden passport that made you effective royalty... yeah it makes sense

Smh Blue is out here cheating at Marco Polo and got his eyes open

@jazzfan1994

4 жыл бұрын

Everyone else is cheating by being outside his 2D plane.

@anonymousfellow8879

4 жыл бұрын

Periastron And by not calling back “Polo!”

@yourunclejoe9500

4 жыл бұрын

omg im literally shaking and crying rn unsubbing Blue would never do that

Silly blue .... A rhino is not just a unicorn... It’s a BATTLE UNICORN !!!

@CharlesUrban

4 жыл бұрын

The X-52 Tactical Unicorn...a top-secret military prototype.

@sicarius6501

4 жыл бұрын

@@CharlesUrban im getting the X-69 Aquatic, heard they had some in Area 51

@Detlaff_Official

4 жыл бұрын

A Unicorn that decided to become a Tank

@Ajehy

4 жыл бұрын

WARNICORN!

@jeromefournier9667

4 жыл бұрын

Raising Rhinos is obviously primarily for milking purposes.

*Marco Polo:* I come here to bargain. *Swimming Pools:* _NO GOD! NO GOD PLEASE NO! NO! NO! NOOOOOOOO!!!_

@amehak1922

4 жыл бұрын

Dormamu enters the chat

I once yelled ‘Marco’ in a foreign country...I actually got a reply from a random japanese person! I wasn’t even IN Japan!

@christelheadington1136

4 жыл бұрын

Cool

@yannislafond-bensot9901

4 жыл бұрын

Izzy yeah depending on the country it might not work x) here in France Marco Polo’s not a thing, but we have Colin-Maillard

@JLucas_RS

4 жыл бұрын

@@phantasosxgames8488 What?

@phantasosxgames8488

4 жыл бұрын

@@JLucas_RS Astolfo , paladin of Charlesmagne

@xboxboys03

4 жыл бұрын

PhantasosX Games Everybody's first trap

5:15 Marco polo was an Assassins Creed fan, seems legit

@reyonXIII

4 жыл бұрын

I mean, he was in cahoots with Altair

@RenoApostoli

4 жыл бұрын

@@reyonXIII Sadly, only Maffeo and Niccolo met Altair. He did train the guy who would later form Auditore Family though, so that's neat.

@TooLateForIeago

4 жыл бұрын

The Assassins were only exterminated in 1275. They probably still had quite the reputation in the early 1300s.

@DimitrisGenn

4 жыл бұрын

Speaking of which, Blue should make a video about the hashashin.

@JLucas_RS

4 жыл бұрын

@@RenoApostoli Wasn't Domenico Dante's apprentice?

7:55 funny that Marco would call a rhino a unicorn, but it makes sense, since the original (biblical) description of a unicorn also sounds suspiciously like a rhino

@candy-coatedrose513

3 жыл бұрын

To my knowledge, the unicorn was based off of the rhino, filtered through way too many people. Like drawing something based on a description given by your friend who knows someone who knows a man who swears he saw one once, while very drunk and lost. That's how giraffe->Questing Beast of Arthurian legend.

@dragonheart1236

2 жыл бұрын

@@candy-coatedrose513 a unicorn was often described to the Celtic people by the natives of Africa as "like a water horse, but with a horn". Celtic myths have a lot of horses, so they figured that a water horse was probably just that, a horse related to water. The name "water horse" as you might know, is another term for a hippo. So the described unicorn was actually "like a hippo, with a horn". Aka, a rhino

@Corviidei

2 жыл бұрын

@@dragonheart1236 that... makes a lot of sense actually

@siyacer

3 ай бұрын

​@@dragonheart1236hippopotamus means river horse after all

“I see your sorcerery, and raise you ⚡️ SCIENCE ⚡️!”

@schw4rztee502

4 жыл бұрын

I want that on a shirt!

@MaximilianOOO491

4 жыл бұрын

Schw4rztee yes!!! On a shirt!!

@dynamicworlds1

4 жыл бұрын

Shirt!

@gretablackwell495

4 жыл бұрын

s h i r t

@SonsOfLorgar

4 жыл бұрын

Shirt!

Marco Polo is how to know your friends from your enemies. I yelled out _Marco_ once and got _Polo'd_ into a pond. Edit: this has nothing to do with world history, I'm just bitter.

@tjshapiro2677

4 жыл бұрын

I was playing Marco Polo with my friends and at one point all of us (who weren't it) went into the jacuzzi. The person who was it didn't find out until like five minutes later

@cow1816

4 жыл бұрын

I hate it when ye say "MARCO" and no one says anthing.

@JaelaOrdo

4 жыл бұрын

The Yak that always happened to me, mainly cause I never had any friends 😂

@mikegould6590

4 жыл бұрын

S T A R K A S M in our family it’s “Istanbul” and “Constantinople”

"...venetians had their eyes gouged out..." *insert venetian blind joke here*

@Theo-oh3jk

4 жыл бұрын

And that was the origin of the darkly humorous childhood game of Marco Polo. ;)

@vikiai4241

4 жыл бұрын

Okay... Q: How do you make a Venetian blind? A: Send them to Constantinople in the year 1260!

@dynamicworlds1

4 жыл бұрын

Mass eye-plucking is the ultimate Byzantine "I am 100% done with your shit and need to send a warning to the next 10 generations" Also, I denounce Venice.

@blarg2429

4 жыл бұрын

@@dynamicworlds1 We should ban crabs.

@rolebo1

4 жыл бұрын

@@blarg2429 Boat Mormonism for world religion.

I wonder how Marco Polo and his contemporaries would think of the fact that these days you can travel from Venice to Beijing/Khanbaliq in just over 12 hours today.

@artofthepossible7329

4 жыл бұрын

Fish out of water aweness I'd imagine.

I am convinced that Marco Polo would not mention things like chop sticks because for him it would be an everyday occurrence. It would be as if we were to mention in our current records that we use forks. It would really be a "well no shit" for anyone in our audience.

@hulkamania5071

Жыл бұрын

no, he would have mentioned it when he first learned about them

@JG-vh6oy

Жыл бұрын

@@hulkamania5071 the text was written in a jail cell many years later, not as he was on his journey. I guess what Matt is implying here is that Marco Polo would have been so used to seeing people eat with chopsticks from living in China for years, that he assumed it was common knowledge or flag out forgot to bring up something that would have been odd to Europeans generally but wasn’t to him

@TheSecondVersion

4 ай бұрын

​​​@@JG-vh6oy it's like if Americans and Brits exchanged stories about all sorts of different food, dialects, architecture, and politics but neglected to mention that they drive on opposite sides of the road, and that their steering wheels are on the other side of the vehicle

@JG-vh6oy

4 ай бұрын

@@TheSecondVersion yeah, exactly

@joshygoldiem_j2799

4 ай бұрын

@@JG-vh6oysurely he would've noticed the difference after returning home, right?

"I've seen a unicorn fatter then I expected" hands down the best thing I've ever heard about a fucking Rhino

"I see Your Sorcery, and Raise you SCIENCE." Aw, that's great. I'm totally using that.

@ronjayrose9706

4 жыл бұрын

I feel like I've heard this from a card game before

@tortis6342

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like something Sokka would say.

I feel like Marco's accounts are like a vacation photo album.

Ibn Battuta and his African explorations would be fun to see next

@mylesjude233

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah that'd be cool

@madhatterman01

4 жыл бұрын

I second this notion

@johnvonshepard9373

4 жыл бұрын

Nah he was a bigoted asshole.

@FinMertons

4 жыл бұрын

Extra Credits did a video with that. Dude traveled from Africa to South East Asia.

@mjlamey1066

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, let's hear the story of how he enslaved, raped, and impregnated every ethnicity he considered inferior.

Tibetan women: Hi, we're part of an ancient and famously religious culture bound on finding enlightenment. Would you like some butter tea? Marco Polo (years later to a fanfic writer): yEaH i BaNgEd ThEm AlL bRo

@benthomason3307

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe he just met _one particular_ promiscuous asian woman with a thing for foreigners and just assumed they were all like that?

@sataba1557

2 жыл бұрын

@@benthomason3307 It's actually even weirder: I took a seminar on Marco Polo this semester and he actually claimed this was a regular thing, basically no tibetan man would want a virgin as a wife so what mothers would do is they'd send their daughters out to "comfort" foreigners on their way through, and afterwards the women would get a little trinket like jewelry from them. Then they'd waltz around town displaying said jewelry and thereby their... experience.

@benthomason3307

2 жыл бұрын

@@sataba1557 That has the exact flavor of weird that real things do. Was it true?

@sataba1557

2 жыл бұрын

@@benthomason3307 I haven't come across anything that would corroborate that, there's actually a documentary where the writing process in jail is used as a framing device and rustichello is like "hey... that weird sex ramble you just gave me... you know that'd make bank right?" (The documentary is in German tho and there's no sub or dub)

@slllloraxxx

2 жыл бұрын

@@benthomason3307 as someone who lived in East Asia, I've encountered plenty of western guys who make sweeping generalizations of women from various countries based on their very limited experience with them and with dudes who would spin stories about their romantic exploits with said women. The spirt of Polo remains strong 😂

0:13 Nice going, Genghis! I bet that will last a long time

@herusolares5320

4 жыл бұрын

then it broooooke again~

In fifth grade there was a kid in my class named Marco and whenever the teacher would say his name his friends would say Polo. Every time it happened Marco would look like he wanted to die.

@Deadgays

2 жыл бұрын

POLO

@AngelArcher17

Жыл бұрын

That is a burden anyone named “Marco” must carry and experience more than once

Of course people keep mistaking rhinos for unicorns.

@mirjanbouma

4 жыл бұрын

Easy mistake to make, eh.

@jlokison

4 жыл бұрын

Wakandan War Unicorns are real

@BluTaiger

4 жыл бұрын

To be fair, "unicorn" literally means "one horn" - which is the exact number of horns that asian rhino species possess.

@Xalerdane

Жыл бұрын

Someone else commented that the medieval unicorn comes from Africans referring to an animal that they knew of to European traders as a “water-horse, but with a horn.” Now if you couldn’t guess, ‘water-horse’ is the name in most languages for the beast we now call a hippopotamus. Hell, ‘hippopotamus’ _itself_ is Greek for ‘river-horse’. Hippo/hippa = horse, pota/potus = river. But the Europeans did not possess the cultural context necessary to comprehend ‘water-horse’ any way except literally, so they thought the Africans were talking about some kind of _actual horse_ that lived near or, somehow, in water and had a horn. But what the Africans _really_ meant was “like the creature you will one day call a hippopotamus, but it has a horn on its head.” So rhinos literally are unicorns.

8:07 I demand that phrase is put on a T-shirt!!!

@thegrammarcrusader4085

4 жыл бұрын

*Yes.*

@bucketorandomness9383

4 жыл бұрын

I strongly agree! Where's the petition?

@adambosman9611

4 жыл бұрын

@@bucketorandomness9383 Indeed comrade, where is this petition!!!

@angelamaggioncalda1923

4 жыл бұрын

I’ll join!

Dude, please talk about Ibn-Batutta, the most well-travelled person before the steam engine. He also produced a written account of his travels. Boy, did he travel. He began in Morocco, and traveled as far east as China, and as far south as West Africa.

@Dave_Sisson

4 жыл бұрын

An episode on Ibn Battuta would be great, but lots of pre steam engine people traveled vastly further than he did. Take James Cook, he went to North America with the British navy several times before circumnavigating the world THREE times, exploring and mapping all the way. There were a few others that were almost as well traveled as Cook as well.

@ymirishere7108

4 жыл бұрын

@@Dave_Sisson The first steam engine was invented in 1698, and James Cook was *born* in 1728. I can't think of many competitors for Ibn-Batutta's title.

@Dave_Sisson

4 жыл бұрын

@@ymirishere7108 True, but steam engines were only used as mine pumps until the early 1800s. I guess I was thinking of steam engines used for transport.

@totallycrazystudios1801

4 жыл бұрын

To quote a commenter under Extra Credit's series on him. "He makes Marco Polo look like Dora"

@DragonEmperorMycen

3 жыл бұрын

Time for a S I D E T R I P~!

Have you ever considered... 8:10 SCIENCE

Those sand dune chords always give me the chills whenever I hear them. No wonder Marco thought they were evil

Blue: Marco Marco Marco? Me: •inhale• *POLOOOO*

**Marco Polo:** Oh, yeah, there's these Hashashins in white robes that freerun! **Blue:** Yeah, that didn't happen **Me:** ..I smell a Templar

@briankelly130

4 жыл бұрын

And then it's revealed that Blue is a Templar and Red is an Assassin and they're both secretly trying to compromise each others work.

@ddpzzp553

4 жыл бұрын

in Assassins creed revelations Marcos father meets Altair

I am an uncultured swine, so this channel helps me out with many things, like knowing who Marco Polo is. Thanks. I needed that

I hit my face in the wall real hard while playing Marco Polo.

Something only people named Marco understand is the joy of saying "me" when playing Marco Polo

I actually really appreciate Marco Polo trying to describe what he experienced even when he had no name or reference to it, such as the “ghosts of the dessert”. I’ve traveled through Centra Asia quite a bit and so much is so far removed from my realm of relevant knowledge or context the best you can do sometimes is describe it in vague, loosely related references. Sometimes things are so old they have several different stories attached to them and even the locals don’t know which is correct. Sometime, none of the stories are right and there is no referee, but things are still there. In Conclusion, Marcos account of his travels was pretty cool.

Hey Blue, thanks for doing that Historical Pulse Check. I'm sure you know how easy it is to have a de-synchronization between things that happened at the same time because of how wildly different they are. Also: Marco Polo's writer being one of the King Arthur writers is something I never knew. That's wild.

Genoese: MARCO! Marco Polo, on his newly equipped war galley: .... Genoese: MARCO!!! Marco Polo: .... Genoese: THATS CHEATING, YOU CANT JUST NOT YELL BACK!

Last time I was this early Rome was still a republic

@romanrepublic1356

4 жыл бұрын

Last time I was this early rome was still a kingdom.

@paulwagner688

4 жыл бұрын

The last time I was this early Aeneas was still diddling with Dido

@eldorados_lost_searcher

4 жыл бұрын

Last time I was this early, Romulus and Remus were suckling on a wolf.

@gear7546

4 жыл бұрын

Last time i was this early was when Denmark was vikings (I'm Danish lmao)

@pedrolmlkzk

4 жыл бұрын

last time i was this early rome was not in a civil war

Funny story about that rhino=unicorn story. In one of my first few D&D games, our party was traveling across a savanna that had previously proven to have ostriches in it, and I was scouting a bit ahead of the rest of the party. Came across a creature my DM described as huge and grey at first, so I'm thinking "African Savanna style climate, huge grey thing, it's an elephant..." Got a few other descriptors that I read as confirmation - a small tail, the feet, big ears...but all of which also fit a rhinoceros for a given definition of small tail and big ears...then got around to the face and where I was expecting tusks and a trunk I got "a horn on its nose" and immediately blurted out "a _unicorn_ elephant!?" Two years later, that is still a joke in my D&D group and has, to a lesser extent, spread to the wider community of friends from which this D&D group arose. Knowing his sense of humour, I would not be at all surprised if my DM has been choosing his words carefully to make it seem like an elephant at first in hopes of prompting such a reaction. Either way, it's funny. So I can sympathize with Marco Polo about his error.

5:01 The Tibet part might also be true too, at least partially. In my anthropology class we learned about a west chinese/tibetan culture which practiced polyandry, in which the wife would have multiple husbands (usually all brothers) who all live in a less formal marriage, where the wife gets quality time with each husband while all of the other husbands are out working. Marco polo may have seen this system, but exaggerate it because it's so alien to catholicism.

How neat would it be if Marco Polo constantly kept notes and wrote and published his book himself.

@karenstrong6734

4 жыл бұрын

Wolfsgeist yeah, I learn about him in class yesterday, we had a big debate if he actually reached China or not. But I still think he should do write with his own hand, then publish his book for himself.

@fulviopontarollo2952

10 ай бұрын

The interesting thing is, presumably he did. In his book, one of the main reasons given for the Khan liking him is that, unlike other envoys who simply “dryly” reported about the mission they were sent to do, Marco, as a foreigner awestruck by the new things he saw, also included all sorts of details about the local way of life, the geography, economy, architecture etc in his reports, which the Khan appreciated to get a new perspective of how things were going in his empire

I'm here so early Marco Polo was getting new episodes on Netflix

@theartofwar551

4 жыл бұрын

(sigh) That just hurts bruh. HOW LONG MUST WE WAIT FOR A NEW SEASON?!

@CooperDianeBob

4 жыл бұрын

That show was terrible unfortunately

@johnmorales6281

4 жыл бұрын

@@CooperDianeBob From a historical standpoint, it was. But personally I liked it also because I don't think there's many series or movies from that specific time and place

@SaintAliaTheCat

4 жыл бұрын

Aaaaa it's one of my favourite shows and I need moreeee

Marco polo He’s a Guy that existed once and went somewhere

I'd love to see a video on Prester John, and how the myth affected real world explorers.

@Dave_Sisson

4 жыл бұрын

I always assumed he was a semi-mythical Christian king of Ethiopia which is not anywhere near Asia. When Europeans first got there they were excited that they had finally found Prester John's kingdom.

@miss_baphomet

3 жыл бұрын

@@Dave_Sisson so there are two theories, the first is that Prester John was a legendary Ethiopian king who is either lost to time or known exclusively under a different name. the second is that Prester John refers to David the Builder, a famous king of Georgia. Ethiopia obviously isn't in Asia but it arguably fits the description of Prester John's kingdom better, Georgia is in the Caucasus, which is kind of a grey area if it's Europe or Asia and David matches up much better with the feats attributed to Prester John but it's close enough that it seems unlikely that his name would get corrupted from David to John. of course these both assume that Prester John was actually real in some way which may not even be true

Every argument I have with a new age spiritualist from now on: "I see your sorcery and I raise you SCIENCE!" XD

I love how native English speakers pronounce "Polo". Sounds like the word "chicken" in Italian ahahah

"Some dudes in the mountains getting blasted off hashish and murdering princes" I will never accept another description of the order of assassins both real and fictional

It's always cool seeing the stories of the explorers of old. It can never be easy venturing into foreign cultures, unknown lands, or rarely traveled sites.

Now Red needs a shirt that says "Let's Do Some Tropes!"

Wonderful story, beautifully contextualised! Thanks Blue

Love this new series and I have to say it seems like there are a lot of parallels between Marco Polo and Herodotus, given how skeptical everyone was for centuries about their accounts (with Herodotus being derisively called the father of lies) their tendency to embellish and publish rumors and how many of their claims are only recently being confirmed by unbiased records and archaeological evidence BTW You should totally do Herodotus- I mean come on- he's literally called the father of history AND he's Greek! Those are your favorite things!

*watches Biographics video on Marco Pollo* Well, that was interesting. What should I watch next? *This pops up in the feed* THE DE(VINE) GODS HAVE SPOKEN!

@FonVegen

4 жыл бұрын

Ah yes, Marco Pollo. No chicken has ever ventured further.

As always, thank you for the great history lesson. I always learn interesting fun facts about people, places and situations I never knew or even considered before.

I remember one time I played Marco Polo... and got hit with a bat I don't play that game anymore

@maxiwaxipads

4 жыл бұрын

Anon Ohno!

I really love you guys, you really make history interesting. Also big fan of Red's writing advice!😁

I was in Venice and visited his part is the district! Many times! We heard a but about his story, but I adore listening to your retelling! Good video, thanks Blue

Next one I'd like to see Marcus Aurelius, or King Henry VIII

@paulwagner688

4 жыл бұрын

If he was doing Marcus Aurelius, it would be with the Five Good

@DavidbarZeus1

2 жыл бұрын

Considering the History Makers series is about those who wrote history, I don't think they will be covered in this series

6:00 nice Trebuchet meme

Loved the soundtracks playing in background ;) Also, trebuchets are amazing!

The 'unicorn' he saw was a rhino. Edit: I've finished watching the video and you also mention it

I really appreciate the historical pulse check; that's a very nice touch.

Blue, I fricking love you. You're a king. You make me excited about history. That's all. Keep doing you.

on a unrelated note, this channel just keeps getting better and better. Both yours as well as REd's comment. I love it, please keep it up Small thing or suggestion rather , though, while all of blues videos are neatly packaged together in playlist, red's arent, or atleast, i cant find them, and sometimes i just want to hear mythical storys about myths and so on, without a stop, is this fixable or is my youtube just broken and those things exist?

I would really love what you'd have to say about Malta. It's such a history filled hidden gem.

Beautiful story!

“For History’s sake? *Screen your ghost writers!* “

Hey Blue, thanks for the awesome video. Here aresome other historical characters that might be interesting to cover: William Marshall (curious why he was so important in Vampyr), Alberto Santos-Dumont, William Adams, Antoine Careme and Takeda Shingen.

One of my favorite channels!!

I’m sure you get a lot of merch suggestions but I would LOVE a shirt that says “I see your sorcery and raise you SCIENCE” Thank You for making such a great channel!

Last time I was this early, the Southern Song dynasty hadn't been conquered yet.

@KaiserAfini

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the Khans were good at distributing resources and knowledge through commerce. But producing wealth and administration ? Yikes. Too bad, the Song dynasty was pretty advanced in fascinating ways.

Request for future History-Makers: Isambard Kingdom Brunel, The Greatest Engineer Who Ever Lived. First underwater tunnel, built with the first tunnel boring machine. First truly modern railway, the Great Western Railway from London to Bristol. First steamship purpose-built to cross the Atlantic, the SS Great Western. First steamship to employ both iron hull and screw propeller, SS Great Britain (which still exists today in Bristol, in the very drydock where she was built). One of the first suspension bridges in the UK, the Cliffton Suspension Bridge in Bristol. The largest ship in the world from 1858 until 1899, the SS Great Eastern, which also laid the first successful transatlantic telegraph cable. And that's just a sampling of the hundreds of bridges he designed, dozens of railway he built throughout England, Wales, Ireland, Italy, and India, the first flat-pack hospital he designed for the Crimean War, the several steamships he built, rebuilding several ports including Bristol, Plymouth, and Portsmouth, and much more. All while smoking 40 cigars a day, getting about 4 hours' sleep every night, redefining the term "workaholic", getting married to a wealthy socialite and fathering several children (and by all accounts being a surprisingly good dad), and again so much more. All before tragically dying of a stroke at the age of 53.

That intro was pure gold.

Laurence Bergreen’s book about Polo retells his journey with contemporary research. It’s really good.

the part about the Gobi Desert sand was really really neat

I love your work.

This crash course is pretty good 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

I love your video!

I read part of the Travels, and I stopped when he reached Afghanistan. My favorite part was him describing what remained of the Crusader State of Little Armenia. I just find it weirdly fascinating.

I'd love to see Ahmad ibn Fadlan. He traveled with Vikings. Also, Michal Crichton (author of Jurassic Park) wrote Eaters of the Dead with him in it, in an attempt to show Beowulf could be an interesting read.

8:06 xD genius writing tbh, great video :D

7:50 Is this what the Dune sand walking is based off of and the spice being the symbolance of Ghost?

top notch content!

If anyone still doubts the veracity of Marco’s account, check out the PBS documentary “In the Footsteps of Marco Polo” and its accompanying book: Long story short, in the early ‘90’s two guys from Queens spent two years literally retracing Marco’s entire route from Venice to China and back, and they made sure to document everything that matched his writings and everything that did not. The story of their project is an absolute trip (pun intended), and a really great example of how complete strangers from disparate cultures can all get along.

Great vid!

Cool! I like this series!

History amazes me

Imagine if Steam Locomotives existed back then to speed up the travel. Marco would of had his own- *Polo Express* 😎 Ha. Hahahaha......

I thought the Hashishin were confirmed as an organization that was involved in the Crusades? And possibly still functioning during the Mongol Empire

@elijahpadilla5083

4 жыл бұрын

@@phantasosxgames8488 Marco: So I met some dudes in the desert, they wore only white! Writer: Hashishins, got it. Marco: So anyway, they partied pretty hard. Lots of alcohol, and some hashish. Writer: Constantly smoking hashish . . . Marco: We even got so drunk that a prince died, it was really crazy. Writer: These people kill princes on the regular!

@phantasosxgames8488

4 жыл бұрын

@@elijahpadilla5083 LOL no doubt it's something like that.

@erikerik3750

4 жыл бұрын

Hashashins destroyed by Mongol Hulagu Khan once and for all.

@zori_12

3 жыл бұрын

To be fair, the Hashishin part of the sect is mostly a myth, but the sect itself was real af. They claimed to have killed two caliphes, and were more of a bunch of religious extremists. Like the precursors for modern-day terrorist organizations. They were later destroyed by the Mongols in the siege of Alamut.

Tea drinking chopsticks and foot binding weren't practiced by the mongols. He also got far more right than wrong

@neutronalchemist3241

4 жыл бұрын

Many other travelers of that era didn't mention tea, the great wall, or chopsticks. Marco was a traveler, not a westerner that enters in a Chinese restaurant and discover he can't have a fork for the first time in his life. He saw and practiced dozens of way of eating and tasted hundreds of beverages. Tea and chopsticks were not particularly weird.

I love the fact that you started with the pool game!

Idk as a person who has been on some long trips (where I literally had to ask my parents constantly where I was) I got very confused about some details and the only thing I remember strongly now is the plays I saw, my favorite foods there, and how terrible I thought it was sharing a room with my sisters and I couldn’t even hang at the pool cause one of the hotels didn’t have one. The rest was all “ugh walking, wow can we go home yet, that was really cool but I’m tired, and I miss my dog” long story short, long trips suck, details blend together, and you forget more than you remember.

I would be awesome to listen to your take on Flavius Josephus and his written works. Nevertheless your video was informative and fun to watch as always, heck, I didn't even know much about Marco Polo besides being some guy that traveled to Asia. I hope keep on making great videos and have a nice day. (P.S. Forgive me for my mediocre writing and placement on punctuation if it caused you to cringe of any sort.)

It took me a while, but I finally found this video!

I'm here from Knowing Better, forgot about this channel until now

Could you do Francisco Goya? I love his paintings and the crazy things he did to speak against the church. Plus his paintings of royal families.

Good video!

I loved the vid! I think a video about Kublai Kahn himself and how the mongols became rulers of China would be a great follow up, hes a fascinating political figure in history.

I see, so marco polo created the italians by introducing spaghetti to the indegenous people The more you know

@garn3590

4 жыл бұрын

it was a myth invented by an american film basically

@armorfrogentertainment

4 жыл бұрын

@@oyoo3323 considering Marco Polo compared Chinese noodles to his native pasta, it's pretty obvious that pasta existed in Italy before Marco Polo. Also, as for the claim that he also brought pizza to Italy from China... just, no. Chinese people don't really eat cheese (although the Mongols ruling at the time did), and tomatoes didn't reach the Old World until centuries later.

@JJJBunney001

4 жыл бұрын

The most important part of all this... I'm keen for some Italian food now

@Hyperversum3

4 жыл бұрын

@@JJJBunney001 I see your comment and laugh in Italian college student at home for a chill night with friends [[[Tons of pizza]]]

@AlexanderRJaruk

4 жыл бұрын

@Hernando Malinche you don't know much about Mongolian culture do you? Half their diet is milk products.

Probably a bit late, but just to be clear: The text the video is showing at 3:58 is actually just a synopsis of the book (including of the notes from the 19th / early 20th century editions).The original text itself is much more readable (even though the names still make it kinda hard to know what Marco is actually refering to, but that's what those notes are for).

You guys get bonus points for the AC2 background music

Great video

1 Million subs, here they come! Damn, I remember when they had 100k Oh how this channel has grown.

This was very enjoyable! What about a video on Juan Ponce de Leon? Or would you go as late as Catherine the Great possibly???

On the subject of famous Venetians, please do a video on Casanova!