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