1. This is brain pop
Marco
Polo

2. You look hungry
Moby, what do you
say we get something
to eat?
Bee-beep

3. Hey did you
know that
Spaghetti, Ravioli,
Lasagna, and all of our
favorite Italian
meals were ideas
taken from
the Chinese?
Bee-beep

4. Once upon a time in Italy,

5. there lived a boy named Marco Polo.

6. He decided to travel east to see what was over there.

7. Bee-beep
So he went East
into Asia.

8. He made the trip from Italy to the empire of China

9. He made it to China and met Kublai Khan

10. You’re my boy
Khablai. Holla!
Word
Khublai hooked him up with oranges and spices, and he discovered many types of recipes that Italians claim as their own now like pizza, lasagna, and spaghetti.

11. return to Italy, after a tough trip back where pirates
He stayed in China for
17 years only to
return to Italy, after a tough
trip back where pirates
stole many of his riches
from the orient.
Bee-beep

12. Marco was ready to go back home with many riches but encountered pirates.

13. Hand over your riches
POLO!
Snap!

14. Two years after leaving China, Marco got back
with little riches to prove
that he went and saw
so many amazing things.
Bee-beep

15. He wrote a book called The Travels of Marco Polo

16. It spoke of the amazing sights and riches in Asia

17. However, the things he saw in China were so amazing that most Italians thought he was a liar

18. Il Milione
They jokingly called his book “Il Milione” which is Italian for “the million lies”

19. This continued all the way to his death. He was never seen
as that amazing an
explorer until years later.
Bee-beep

20. So what do you say we go
grab some Chinese food!
Bee-beep

21. Bee-beep
Perfect