Arrange the following travellers according to the chronology of their…

The correct answer is Option (2) → D, C, E, A, B

(D) Al-Biruni — 973-1048, from Uzbekistan; the earliest of the five, in the tenth-eleventh centuries.

(C) Marco Polo — 1254-1323, from Italy, in the thirteenth century.

(E) Abd-al Razzaq Samarqandi — 1413-82, from Samarqand, in the fifteenth century.

(A) Duarte Barbosa — visited India in 1518, from Portugal, in the sixteenth century.

(B) Peter Mundy — 1600-67, from England, in the seventeenth century.

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