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Marco Polo's family were good friends with this person, and they sponsored the Polo's and ordered their travels.
Who was Kublai Khan?
Zheng He's travels were for this purpose ordered by the Chinese emperor when he visited other countries' leaders.
What is changing them to tributaries?
This is a large water feature that all three travelers crossed in their many voyages.
What is the Bay of Bengal, the Arabian Sea, or the South China Sea?
This city was the heart of the Islamic world, and a must-visit on Ibn Battuta's hajj.
What is Mecca?
Marco Polo was impressed by the Chinese's use of this advancement for currency
What is paper money?
This person was the Chinese emperor who first ordered Zheng He's expedition.
Who was Yong Le?
In the Mongol Empire, men did not do this action, instead offering to hunt or fight, leaving it to the women.
What is buying and selling?
This event happened to Ibn Battuta, and ruined his journey to China ordered by the Delhi sultan.
What is a shipwreck?
This city had a famously long river flowing through it that Ibn Battuta recorded having thousands of boats flow through it.
What is Cairo?
This element of Asian weather allowed for travelers like Ibn Battua or Zheng He to sail the Indian ocean quickly.
What are monsoons?
Marco Polo's brothers were ordered to give a letter to this person by a powerful Asian Leader.
Who is the Pope?
Ibn Battuta found these objects said to have been owned by the prophet Muhammad during his visit in Mecca. (Name at least one)
What is a bowl and a pencil?
This was the number of journeys Ibn Battuta took.
What is four?
All of Zheng He's travels were based out of or start in this port city.
What is Nanjing?
Zheng He received this from the empires he traded with on his expeditions.
What is spices, exotic animals, jewelry, or medicines?
This Indian sultan gave Ibn Battuta a job in his court, and had a ruthless reputation despite his generosity to Ibn Battuta.
Who was Muhammad Tughlaq?
In the Islamic capital of Mecca, Ibn Battuta noted that pilgrims could eat and sleep, but not this.
What is cooking?
Marco Polo brought this unknowingly hazardous material to the Pope from his travels, and both were very curious to study it.
What is asbestos?
This was the birthplace of a famous traveler, and is located just south of the present day straight of Gibraltar.
What is Tangier?
On Marco Polo's journey, he noted a Chinese factory producing 125,000 tons of this substance each year.
What is iron?
This person helped to document Ibn Battuta's travels in his famous book, the Rihla.
Who was Ibn Juzayy?
In Marco Polo's travels, he observed the Kinsay performing this ritual to their dead.
What is burning the dead?
When Zheng He visited Siam, they refused his offers so he did this to solve that problem.
What is slaying the leader with his armies and appointing a new leader?
Marco polo, upon impressing the Chinese emperor, was given this city to govern.
What is Yangzhou?
This is the estimated number of wives Ibn Battuta took on all of his travels.
What is ten?