Medieval Travellers

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Description	Dates	Travellers
Commanded treasure voyages to Southeast Asia, South Asia, Western Asia and East Africa.	1405-1433	Zheng He
Travelled throughout the Islamic world and also to non-Muslim lands in Central Asia, Southeast Asia, India and China.	1325-1354	Ibn Battuta
Was exiled from Iceland for murder and so settled in Greenland	10th-11th Centuries	Erik the Red
Polynesians who settled New Zealand.	14th Century	Māori
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
Jewish traveller who visited Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Mesopotamia and Persia.	12th Century	Benjamin of Tudela
Chinese travel writer who travelled through the Islamic world.	8th Century	Du Huan
Franciscan monk who visited Java, Sumatra and China.	14th Century	Odoric of Pordenone

Description	Dates	Travellers
Taoist disciple who travelled through Central Asia.	13th Century	Qiu Chuji
First European to set foot in mainland North America.	11th Century	Leif Erikson
Venetian who travelled the Silk Road, did some work for Kublai Khan.	1271-1295	Marco Polo
Korean Buddhist monk who studied Buddhism in China and India.	8th Century	Hyecho
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
Norse Viking who discovered Iceland.	8th-9th Centuries	Naddodd
Turkic Chinese Nestorian monk who travelled to Baghdad and served as an ambassador to Europe.	13th Century	Rabban Bar Sauma

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