Pasta Fun Facts:Contrary to popular belief, Marco Polo did not discover pasta. The ancient Italians made pasta much like we do today. Although Marco Polo wrote about eating Chinese pasta at the court of Kubla Khan, he probably didn’t introduce pasta to Italy. In fact, there’s evidence s...
Hope you don’t mind, but I used the Marco Polo one in the intro to my podcast about Croatia. I had heard it before, but totally forgot that they “claim” he was from Korcula. Reply dani says: February 25, 2015 at 4:23 am There are places with less than 17 people but to be...
6. Marco Polo probably wasn’t the first to bring gunpowder to Europe. While Marco Polo didreturn from Chinain 1295 with fireworks, some argue that Europeans were likely exposed to gunpowder weaponry a little earlier during the Crusades. In the 9th century, China began trying to control the ...
Chinese people invented ice cream and some believe that the famous Venetian traveler Marco Polo carried the recipe of ice cream as well as noodles from China to Europe. The Chinese were the first to invent the waterwheel to harness water in 31 A.D. China was also the first country in the...
The most famous person from history to travel the Silk Road was Marco Polo. He was also the first person from Europe to document his experience traveling around China. Not all that was traded along the Silk Road was good. It is thought that the bubonic plague, or Black Death, travele...
Fun Italy Facts For Kids Italy is one seriously interesting country, from the Ancient Romans, their awesome food, their super speedy cars and an entirely independent state that sits within Italy itself. Read on, you’ll be amazed at some of these cool fa
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Adventurer Marco Polo believed that he had seen unicorns and wrote, "they are very ugly brutes to look at." He was probably describing rhinoceroses.[5] The King James translation of the Old Testament refers to unicorns 9 times because of the mistranslation of the Hebrew wordre'em, which is...