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Marco Polo leaves Venice with Niccolò and Maffeo for the east

In 1271, as later told, Marco Polo left Venice with Niccolò and Maffeo. Marco Polo's documented role is: He travelled as a teenager with father and uncle. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.

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In 1271, as later told, Marco Polo left Venice with Niccolò and Maffeo. Marco Polo's documented role is: He travelled as a teenager with father and uncle.

Context

The uncles had already been east. Sharing the journey with them is required. Year-level dating is honest. The setting of Marco Polo leaves Venice with Niccolò and Maffeo for the east is the public file around 1271-01-01. Driver edu-digital-learning-access is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

Why it matters

High on the received story; no autograph log. The welfare reading on this path is improving.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Mixed effects of Marco Polo leaves Venice with Niccolò and Maffeo for the east are separate paths.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Marco Polo

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.4 · verified

    He travelled as a teenager with father and uncle.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Britannica — Marco Polo return c. 1295Encyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Archivio di Stato di Venezia — Polo family later archival contextArchivio di Stato di Venezia · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Britannica independently dates the 1271 departure as received. Venetian archives hold later Polo papers, not a 1271 log. Official carrier: Archivio di Stato di Venezia — Polo family later archival context (https://www.archiviodistatovenezia.it/ (opens in a new tab); Archivio di Stato di Venezia). Independent carrier: Britannica — Marco Polo, 1271 departure (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marco-Polo (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Established as received 1271 departure. Not established: a day-precision Venetian customs stamp. Established: a sourced public record of Marco Polo leaves Venice with Niccolò and Maffeo for the east under 1271-01-01.

Shared responsibility is part of Marco Polo leaves Venice with Niccolò and Maffeo for the east. Naming Marco Polo does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1271-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorMarco Polo
  2. contributed toFactMarco Polo leaves Venice with Niccolò and Maffeo for the east
  3. strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
  4. weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)

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Factrail. (2026). Marco Polo leaves Venice with Niccolò and Maffeo for the east. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/mp-depart-1271

https://factrail.ai/facts/mp-depart-1271

Accessed 15 October 2026.

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