We're talking about Marco Polo, the merchant of Venice, the explorer, the traveler from 13th century Italy. Now, before we talk about a little bit of the specifics, the big idea of course is this is one of those kind of wheels of history that turns everything. And Marco Polo represents that change, really kind of connecting two different civilizations, two different kinds of worlds in creating one global community. So, he was born in 1254 in Venice, Italy. He was born to a middle class merchant family. In fact, his father and his uncle, they got out of town the year that he was born, before he was born. His father and his uncle, Nicolo and Maffio, I don't speak Italian very well, they actually left even before Marco Polo was born.