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Historical Figures and Influential People in History
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Marco Polo
1254–1324EuropeItaly
He spent seventeen years at the court of Kublai Khan, returned to Venice, and described a world so different from anything Europeans had seen that most people assumed he was lying.
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Moctezuma II
1466–1520AmericasMexico
He ruled the most powerful empire in Mesoamerica, received the Spanish as possible gods, and within two years had died and his world had ceased to exist.
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