Marco Polo grew up with a Venetian family in a trading environment. Polo‚ a highly educated individual‚ lives on in history as one of the greatest explorers of the 13th and 14th century. He traversed the Far East while keeping a detailed account of everything he experienced. His enthusiasm towards traveling‚ inspired by his family‚ propelled him to the accomplishments scholars remember him for today. Scholars utilize many of his maps‚ textbooks‚ and history lessons around the world. Polo lived a
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Born in 1254 in Venice‚ Marco Polo is today a well-known figure of pre-Renaissance travels‚ and for his ground breaking travels to lands never before journeyed by Europeans. He was an Italian traveler and author‚ and spent the majority of his life travelling and exploring. His father Nicolo and uncle Maffeo‚ both merchants‚ had conducted business and trade in Constantinopole (now known as Istanbul) and the Crimea. However‚ when Genoa’s merchants‚ rivals to the Italian Polo’s‚ took over trade in
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The Travels of Marco Polo My ignorance and general distaste for history are likely to blame‚ but I‚ for one‚ was surprised to learn that Marco Polo is an actual person. Of course‚ I figured there was some significance to the phrase beyond its use as a swimming pool game‚ where a blindfolded individual closes their eyes‚ calls out‚ “Marco‚” and tries to tag other players by tracking down their mandatory responses of‚ “Polo.” That the significance was a name‚ however‚ surprised me indeed. I would
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Test 1 (29.10.2014): Case Volkswagen Scandal Unprecedented scandal was provoked by ordinary shares of Volkswagen in Frankfurt stock-exchange. 30.10.2008 German company Volkswagen has become in very short time the biggest company in the world (making the American oil giant Exxon-Mobil second in the list). It happened after 500% growth of VW ordinaries. On Friday October 24 market price of VW ordinary share was EUR 211‚ but at the end of the Tuesday October 28 trading
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The Travels of Marco Polo and the Reception of Kublai Kahn Marco Polo was a Venetian Christian diplomat that gained the trust of one of the most powerful men in history: Kublai Khan. The book outlines the assimilation of one man into Mongol culture. The Mongols were very accepting of other cultures so cases like these are far from rare. One other example is the Flemish Monk Willem van Ruysbroeck’s first hand account of the Mongols. In both pieces of literature you see the culture of the Mongol Empire
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Marco Polo was born in 1254 in Venice‚ Italy. His uncle Maffeo and his father Nicolo were both famous merchants. Marco Polo was educated in literacy skills and arithmetic. He also had a good knowledge of Italian and French. Marco became famous because of his journey to Cathay and his worked with Kublai Khan and also his splendid book called "The travels of Marco Polo". In 1260‚ when Marco was six years old Nicolo and Maffeo begen their first trip going east to the other side of the Black Sea. They
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_______________________________________________________________________ Attached please find the term paper on Volkswagen Group’s “Strategy 2018”‚ which is due on ______‚ in BUS 388N‚ Operations Management‚ Section. The work and writing presented in this term paper‚ unless specifically specified in an appropriately cited footnote‚ endnote‚ or reference note‚ is solely mine. Name Volkswagen Group‚ one of the leading automobile manufacturers in the world‚ has been on an impressive incline
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Marketing Solutions Volkswagen India Case Study Innovative campaign inspires 2‚700 car recommendations in 4 weeks Volkswagen (VW) is one of the world’s leading automobile manufacturers and the largest carmaker in Europe. As Volkswagen pursues its goal of becoming the number one automaker in the world by 2018‚ India has become a key component of its strategy. India is currently the world’s second fastest growing car market‚ with shipments expected to more than double by 2018.1 As a relatively
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Introduction: Volkswagen‚ the “People’s Car”‚ has quite a diverse track record of production‚ ranging from cars to military equipment and passenger vehicles to commercial cars. It is a German company that was founded in 1937 with the intention of creating the Volkswagen Car‚ which is now known as the Beetle; however‚ as World War II dawned‚ it shifted its production to military equipment. After the war ended‚ Volkswagen realigned its objectives to producing cars‚ and with that began to expand on
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The Volkswagen logo is a household image that is known on an international level. In over seventy years‚ the logo has not changed a great deal and has stood the test of time. What most people do not know how ever is it ’s lush history dating back to Hitler ’s reign to current day with law suits debating the original creator of the logo. In short‚ the Volkswagen logo is memorable‚ scalable‚ and effective without color. In addition to discussing the evolution of its design‚ what makes a good logo‚
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