Marco Polo is a significant and controversial figure in both Eastern and Western histories. He was a close friend and advisor of Kublai Khan, taught the Mongols how to make the mangonel for the Siege of Xiangyang, a governor of Yangzhou for three years and maybe most famously brought pasta to Italy.
While there was significant doubts about this from his contemporaries when he returned home about his stories, he has been vindicated a thousand times over - with his name popping up again and again confirming nearly all of his stories (though there is a little poetic license here and there).
But what if Marco Polo really was just the liar many Venetians thought him to be? How would history have been changed without the presence of this remarkable man?
While there was significant doubts about this from his contemporaries when he returned home about his stories, he has been vindicated a thousand times over - with his name popping up again and again confirming nearly all of his stories (though there is a little poetic license here and there).
But what if Marco Polo really was just the liar many Venetians thought him to be? How would history have been changed without the presence of this remarkable man?