Marco Polo was only 17 in 1271, when he set out from Venice with his father and uncle. The three travellers sailed to the Middle East. Then they journeyed overland, becoming the first-known Europeans to make it to the Silk Road's end, in China.
[No one knows when the Italians first made ice cream, but Marco Polo may have brought a recipe for water ices back with him form China.]
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