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Accidentally Inspiring Colonialism | Marco Polo
🕑 Added 2019-07-26 15:00:07 +0000 UTCA merchant's travel guide, full of misremembered facts, embellishments, and fabrications completely altered the course of history.
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Michael Lambert
Now I know where Trump learned Geography. I quote: Belgium is a beautiful city. Morocco is basically Mexico. Oakland is the same as San Francisco. Paris is in Germany. Tan-zayn-ia is an African country. Orygone is a US state. I'm not bashing him, I'm quoting him.
evil-eric
well we know people have been traveling back and forth in asia as long as there have been people- many of these stories were doubtless based on true events. but just the inaccuracies alone should be enough to dispute the actual travels of any one marco polo character. i think it likely the author just went with 'reality inspired'
Moshe Milstein
Those rascally Italians. (Just kidding, don't hit me)
Pat Iapicca
Great as always. But....that music has to go. It's distracting.
Empress Mermaid
Cool! I managed to be the 6th viewer.
Doug Wild
Please tell me you actually have a Kim Possible ringtone!
Michael Griggs
Can't wait wait to sit down and see this. I'm glad to see some history. You always do a great job with research and presentation.
Julian Centauri
See, I knew today was gonna be a good day. An unexpected Knowing Better post is always a win.
