Marco Polo, (born c. 1254, Venice [Italy]—died January 8, 1324, Venice), Venetian merchant and adventurer who traveled from Europe to Asia in 1271–95, remaining in China for 17 of those years, and whose Il milione (“The Million”), known in English as the Travels of Marco Polo, is a classic of travel literature.
Britain responded by repealing the Stamp Act and the Townshend Acts (except for tax on tea). They also boycotted.
<span>Native Americans in Ohio, who were not parties, refused to acknowledge treaties signed after the Revolutionary War that ceded lands north of the Ohio River inhabited by them to the United States. In a conflict sometimes known as the Northwest Indian War, Blue Jacket of the Shawnees and Little Turtl of the Miamis formed a confederation to stop white expropriation of the territory. After the Indian confederation had killed more than 800 soldiers in two battles the worst defeats ever suffered by the U.S. at the hands of the Indians President Washington assigned General Anthony Wayne command of a new army, which eventually defeated the confederation and thus allowed European-Americans to continue settling the territory. </span>
America has been perceived by the world as the most powerful nation in economic and military positions. And the American people are considered to be most optimistic and hardworking. But with rising of Islamic fundamentalism, this image has been put into question especially in the middleeast where they perceive America as the face of an oppressor.