Consider the following passage: “In the course of a career on the road spanning almost thirty years, he crossed the breadth of the Eastern hemisphere, visited territories equivalent to about 44 modern countries, and put behind him a total distance of approximately 73,000 miles.” The world’s greatest traveller of pre-modern times to whom the above passage refers is
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(a)Megasthenes
(b)FaHien
(c)Marco Polo
(d)Ibn Battuta
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