Marco Polo (1254 – 1324 AD) was a historian, businessman and writer. He was born in Venice, Italy. He traveled to many countries in Asia, including China, Bama, Indonesia and Persia, at a time when the region was largely unknown to ordinary Europeans and citizens.    From Marco Polo's Travels/The Book of Marvels exercise, learn about the then Chinese Empire, its police Peking and other Asian empires.