During the time of Marco Polo, people in Europe believed that Jerusalem was the center of the world, which the majority of the people believed. Marco Polo eventually found that many of the beliefs of Europeans were not true, and that there were amazing things out there. Marco Polo was able to see so many things in his lifetime, that he was put down in history, despite living a portion of his life being considered a liar.
Marco Polo would not have been able to see and know the world if he was not born into a merchant family. At that time, traveling was expensive and took a lot of time, so the only people who traveled the world would be merchants. His father and uncle were able to meet Kublai Khan, and when they took Marco Polo to the Mongolian empire, he was appointed as one of Kublai Khan’s advisors.
Eventually, Marco Polo was thrown in prison during a war, and had a lot of his money taken away from him by the government. When he was in prison, he talked with a writer and shared his stories, and when they were released, a book about Marco Polos adventures were published, and Marco Polo became known as a liar for exaggerating the Mongolian empire. However, even as he was on his deathbed, when a priest asked him if he was telling the truth, Marco Polo said that he was not even telling all of his stories, as he did not wasn’t to blow peoples minds.