Venetian explorer, Marco Polo, told his cellmate during his imprisonment after the Venetian-Genoese War about his travels to the Far East. These accounts became a book , later entitled "The Travels of Marco Polo" which was influential in sparking people's curiosity of the East.
The first impact was that Marco Polo was able to bring elements of Western culture to the East and Eastern culture back to the West. Because of his exploration Indonesia, Mongolia, Sri Lanka, and India, China began to experience Western culture.
Next, Marco Polo's interactions with Mongolian emperor Kublai Khan led to commercial exchange with Western merchants who were now arriving in China. This increased Chinese's growth as a civilization.
The Silk Road, an easier route to travel around the Gobi Desert, traced by the Polos had a huge effect in the future of European and Chinese interaction. It would prove to be a more effective route than to sail the oceans to China.
An act of changing physical location or position or of having this changed.
I believe the answer is: conducting research to learn about the social world
The research in sociology is usually done in order to uncover whether a certain situation created by society affect the lives of the smaller social group. Rather than relying only on the words from authority, it reveal the perspective of all people involved starting from the bottom of society all the way to the power holders.
According to Van Hayek, Galbraith's claims that people do not want other things beside food,clothes, and shelters is illogical.
The people with more income to spend tend to have more tertiary needs that is outside these 3 categories.<span />
Many of them thought it was right that the jews deserved to help due to their suffering in the Holocaust....
