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Black Death - Afro-Eurasia
In the late 13th and early 14th centuries, two intrepid, adventurers, Marco Polo (c.1254-1324) and Ibn Battuta (1304-1368) traveled throughout much of the known world, where few others had journeyed. The stability established by the Pax Mongolia made their separate journeys possible. Their accounts stimulated the interest of their respective literate public to further explore Africa and Asia as possible sources of wealth. To this day, Polo’s and Battuta’s travel accounts remain important sources for historians regarding Afro-Eurasian cross-cultural encounters in late medieval times.

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