Marco Polo [TESTED]

Upon returning to Venice in 1295, Marco was captured during a sea battle with Genoa and imprisoned. In jail, he met a romance writer named Rusticello di Pisa, to whom he dictated his memoirs.

: The book, originally titled Il Milione , described things many Europeans found impossible: paper money, coal, and the immense size of Chinese cities. Marco Polo

: They traveled from Venice, through the Middle East and Persia, eventually crossing the Gobi Desert. Upon returning to Venice in 1295, Marco was