Marco Polo's Embassy Civilization 2

Marco Polo's Embassy Civ2

Marco Polo's Embassy is one of 28 Wonders of the World in MicroProse's TBS Game of 1996, Civilization 2. You automatically establish an embassy with every rival civilization.

The effects of Marco Polo's Embassy expire with the discovery of Communism.

• Marco Polo's Embassy Cost: 200
• Marco Polo's Embassy Prerequisite: Trade

Marco Polo was a trader, writer, and world traveler who lived in the late 13th and early 14th century. Starting as a young boy, he began traveling with his father and uncle, who were merchants and traders in Venice, along a route that would take him throughout Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Throughout his life, he visited many places bringing back detailed information concerning lands that no European before him had visited. Polo's book, "The Travels of Marco Polo", was the only existing source of reliable information on such exotic locales as Siam, Japan, Java, Tibet, and India that existed in medieval Europe.