[DOC] [TLE] Benjamin of Tudela - Wikipedia [PAR] Benjamin of Tudela was a medieval Jewish traveler who visited Europe, Asia, 
and Africa in the 12th century. His vivid descriptions of western Asia preceded 
those of Marco Polo by a ... have begun as a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. It has 
been suggested he may have had a commercial motive as well as a religious 
one. [DOC] [TLE] History of European exploration in Tibet - Wikipedia [PAR] Tibet has attracted European missionaries and explorers for over 500 years. The 
location of ... The earliest European reports of Tibet were from Rabbi Benjamin of 
Tudela ... The first documented European claim to have visited Tibet came from 
Odoric of ... The 18th century brought more Jesuits and Capuchins from Europe. [DOC] [TLE] JEOPARDY! Game - April 9, 2004 [PAR] (6) This fast food chain founded in Miami in 1954 claims to be 1st to offer indoor 
seating & that's no whopper. $200 - ... (21) 12th century rabbi Benjamin of Tudela 
may have been the first European to reach this land, before Marco Polo. $400 -... [DOC] [TLE] Sephardim and their History - JewishGen [PAR] Today however the word Sephardim has taken a much wider meaning and ... 
Jews first came to Iberia after the destruction of the Temple in the 6th century 
B.C.E. while ... There have been unsubstantiated suggestions that the Moors may 
have been ... more extensive than Marco Polo's, reaching China a century before 
him. [DOC] [TLE] Full text of "The itinerary of Rabbi Benjamin of Tudela. Translated ... [PAR] My kindest thanks are due to those gentlemen, who have been pleased to afford 
.... the fullest account extant of the state and number of the Jews in the 12th. 
century. ... qui nous reste (de cettc in INTRODUCTION. c) Our author is the first 
European, ... in many others shared the fate of Petha- chia's b and Marco Polo's 
works. [DOC] [TLE] Dilling Exhibits A through I - Come and Hear [PAR] A great many Japanese, Rabbi Feldman reported, are learning Hebrew, and 
many are ... to aid him in his further study of Judaism in a religious school in the 
Holy Land. ... Marco Polo, who visited China at the end of the 13th cent., testified 
to the ... of the flag with a Shield of David may have been a trick, was the 
beginning of... [DOC] [TLE] Prester John: Fiction and History [PAR] Nov 25, 1996 ... Although this story has several versions, its main theme is: Once upon a ... From 
the middle of the 12th century onward it was accepted in Europe that Prester 
John, king ... First of all, India is mentioned several times in these letters (pp. ... In 
the 13th century Marco Polo identified Prester John with the Khan of... [DOC] [TLE] Marco Polo, Odorico of Pordenone, the Crusades, and the Role of ... [PAR] 1 The simultaneous publication of Marco Polo and Odorico of Pordenone by Gio- 
.... of empirical descriptions of the eastern lands before the fourteenth century and
, ... 8 The account of Rabbi Benjamin of Tudela of the eastern Mediterranean ..... 
as Polo, Odorico, and Jordan, whose first readers might have been looking for... [DOC] [TLE] Medieval Travelers [PAR] principal of all these, however, is Rabbi Daniel, the son of Chisdai, who ... Saba, 
which is Yemen, Diarbekir, all Armenia and the land of Kota near ... Benjamin of 
Tudela was a Jewish traveler in the Mediterranean region and beyond during the
. 12th century. .... Marco Polo was born in 1254 to a Venetian merchant family. [DOC] [TLE] High adventure - Page 4 - Asia Times Forums - Spengler Forums [PAR] Feb 28, 2010 ... Erudite become drunks in first stage since they instinctual flow to the Eternal but 
... The official matter, however, has been banished into Appendix II. .... The Book 
of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, Concerning the Kingdoms and ..... "Rabbi", who 
traveled through Europe, Asia, and Africa in the 12th century. [DOC] [TLE] Bible and Spade - Associates for Biblical Research [PAR] have been

Question: 12th century rabbi Benjamin of Tudela may have been the first European to reach this land, before Marco Polo
Answer: China