Crossing the Silk Road, Marco Polo brought elements of Western culture to the East and Eastern culture back to the West.
Because of his exploration for trade of what is today modern China, Indonesia, Mongolia, Sri Lanka, and India, the east experienced Western culture.
Furthermore, his journeys were documented in the Book of the Marvels of the World which presented to Europeans the Asian cities and countries.
Persians and Byzantines were already weak from fighting among themselves. <span />
It shows the culture of the Kikuyu people in its entirety both
its virtues and its flaws. It shows the
identity of a people and the changes they go through both in ancient times to
the modern era. The author wanted to
give more insight to the culture of his people that is not as primitive as the
Europeans view it.