Who Was Alive

Ibn Battuta

14th century Muslim Maghrebi scholar and explorer

Born 24 February 1304 · died c. 1368

Who was alive at the same time as Ibn Battuta?

  1. Marco Polo
  2. Osman I
  3. Dante Alighieri
  4. Giotto
  5. William of Ockham
  6. Ibn Battuta
  7. Petrarch
  8. Giovanni Boccaccio
  9. Hafez
  10. Ibn Khaldun
  11. Timur
  12. Geoffrey Chaucer
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When Ibn Battuta was born, Marco Polo was 49 and Osman I was 45.

Born during Ibn Battuta’s lifetime: Geoffrey Chaucer, Ibn Khaldun, Hafez, Petrarch, Timur and Giovanni Boccaccio.

Not quite contemporaries: Saadi died 12 years before Ibn Battuta was born, Kublai Khan died 10 years before Ibn Battuta was born, Donatello was born 13 years after Ibn Battuta died and Roger Bacon died 12 years before Ibn Battuta was born.

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