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Ibn Battuta was an Arab explorer. He lived in the fourteenth century. He travelled all over the world. At this time, travelling was very difficult and very dangerous. The people of Europe and North Africa learned a lot about the world from him.
Early Life
Ibn Battuta was born in Morocco on 25th February 1304. He studied very hard at school. He learned to speak and write Arabic. In June 1325, when he was twenty-one years old, he travelled to Mecca. But after that, he did not go home. Instead, he started to travel. First he went to Iraq, Iran and Turkey. Then he returned to Mecca. He stayed there for three years and then sailed down the east coast of Africa. Then he returned to Mecca for a year. In 1330 he decided to work in India. It took him a long time to get there. First he went to southern Russia where he met the daughter of the leader of Constantinople. He took her to Constantinople. Then he travelled back through southern Russia. Then he crossed the Himalayas into India. He reached Delhi and worked for a rich Muslim king.
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