Explorers

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Marco Polo

Marco Polo was born in Venice, Italy in the year 1254.His father, Nicolo, and his uncle , Maffeo, were merchants.On a trip to China to sell goods, they met the Great Kublai Khan.They returned to China on another trip with Marco Polo. He was seventeen years old.When he got back to Italy , Marco Polo told people about what he had seen in China.Unfortunately, people in Italy did not believe his stories and Marco Polo started to be called “man of the million lies”

His stories were written down and made into a book after he died, in 1324 , and this is how the world came to know about this great explorer.

Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus was born

on1451 in Genoa, Italy.

On August 3, 1492,

Columbus and ninenty men

set sail to America. He ruturned to

Spain in 1504 and died two

years later

Wilbur and Orville WrightWilbur was born on a small farm in Indiana, while Orville was born in the city of Dayton , Ohio.

1899 Wilbur gets the idea for an aircraft from bird watching. By shaping the wings of birds.

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