A student in Jaipur reads an excerpt from a fourteenth-century book of travels. The writer recalls leaving his birthplace on a Thursday. He set out alone, with no fellow-traveller and no caravan whose party he might join. He writes that an overmastering impulse and a long-cherished desire drove him to visit illustrious sanctuaries, so he left his dear ones and forsook his home as birds forsake their nests. He adds that he was twenty-two years old at that time. The student wants to find out more about this journey.
About how many years after he set out did this traveller return home?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → About 30 years
Ibn Battuta left Tangier at twenty-two and returned home in 1354, about 30 years after he had set out.
NCERT (2026-27): “2.1 An early globe-trotter … “Ibn Battuta returned home in 1354, about 30 years after he had set out.” |