Medieval Travellers - Statistics

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Description Dates Travellers % Correct
Venetian who travelled the Silk Road, did some work for Kublai Khan. 1271-1295 Marco Polo
91%
First European to set foot in mainland North America. 11th Century Leif Erikson
74%
Polynesians who settled New Zealand. 14th Century Māori
70%
Was carried within fleas on the backs of rats, originating in China, after which it spread through Asia and into Europe. 14th Century Black Death
57%
Was exiled from Iceland for murder and so settled in Greenland 10th-11th Centuries Erik the Red
43%
Travelled throughout the Islamic world and also to non-Muslim lands in Central Asia, Southeast Asia, India and China. 1325-1354 Ibn Battuta
39%
Commanded treasure voyages to Southeast Asia, South Asia, Western Asia and East Africa. 1405-1433 Zheng He
22%
Arab traveller who was a member of an embassy of the Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad to the Volga Bulgars and the Rus'. 10th Century Ahmad ibn Fadlan
4%
Turkic Chinese Nestorian monk who travelled to Baghdad and served as an ambassador to Europe. 13th Century Rabban Bar Sauma
4%
Jewish traveller who visited Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Mesopotamia and Persia. 12th Century Benjamin of Tudela
0%
Chinese travel writer who travelled through the Islamic world. 8th Century Du Huan
0%
Korean Buddhist monk who studied Buddhism in China and India. 8th Century Hyecho
0%
Norse Viking who discovered Iceland. 8th-9th Centuries Naddodd
0%
Franciscan monk who visited Java, Sumatra and China. 14th Century Odoric of Pordenone
0%
Taoist disciple who travelled through Central Asia. 13th Century Qiu Chuji
0%
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