Medieval Travellers

Commanded treasure voyages to Southeast Asia, South Asia, Western Asia and East Africa.

1405-1433

Travelled throughout the Islamic world and also to non-Muslim lands in Central Asia, Southeast Asia, India and China.

1325-1354

Was exiled from Iceland for murder and so settled in Greenland

10th-11th Centuries

Polynesians who settled New Zealand.

14th Century

Was carried within fleas on the backs of rats, originating in China, after which it spread through Asia and into Europe.

14th Century

Jewish traveller who visited Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Mesopotamia and Persia.

12th Century

Chinese travel writer who travelled through the Islamic world.

8th Century

Franciscan monk who visited Java, Sumatra and China.

14th Century

Taoist disciple who travelled through Central Asia.

13th Century

First European to set foot in mainland North America.

11th Century

Venetian who travelled the Silk Road, did some work for Kublai Khan.

1271-1295

Korean Buddhist monk who studied Buddhism in China and India.

8th Century

Arab traveller who was a member of an embassy of the Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad to the Volga Bulgars and the Rus'.

10th Century

Norse Viking who discovered Iceland.

8th-9th Centuries

Turkic Chinese Nestorian monk who travelled to Baghdad and served as an ambassador to Europe.

13th Century