This minilesson is about Marco Polo, the seventeen year old boy, who traveled to mysterious, distant lands in the far east. In their 13th century travels, the Polos befriended Kublai Khan, one of the most powerful men in the world. When they returned home to Italy after twenty-four years, many people did not recognize them. Luckily, Marco Polo recorded his adventures in a book. Some say Marco Polo made up most of those adventures. Others have checked his facts and believe that many of them are t