Trouvère is the Northern French (langue d'oïl) version of troubador (langue d'oc), and refers to poet-composers who were roughly contemporary with the troubadors but who composed their works in the northern dialects of France.
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Francisco Pizarro, (1471-1541), conqueror of the Inca Empire
Marco Polo, (1254-1323), travelled to China in the 13th century.
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