Marco Polo’s description of Beijing is best summarized as a large city with vibrant foreign trade.(Third option)
After travelling along the Silk Road Marco Polo is astonished by the number of cartloads of silk” no less than 1000” entering the city every day. He also talks about how” articles of greater cost and value” were brought to Beijing in” greater abundance” and how people “from every region” were to be found there.
Columbus main interest on the island was to find gold and turning the natives into slaves.
Crete is approximately 500 miles from Cyprus.
