1 mar 1480 año - Marco Polo travels to China (1271)

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Marco Polo travels to China, where he documents the spices and goods available. While Marco Polo himself was born decades before the age of exploration, his actual travels to China served as the breeding ground for the need of exploration itself; many European countries desired spices and needed new routes for trade to Asia with the Mongols, both of which were introduced to the Europeans through Marco Polo's studies. Thus, although Marco Polo himself did not physically contribute to the age of exploration in the 15th-16th centuries, his works contributed to serve as a precedent for naval exploration that represented the age of exploration.

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