Polo and Ibn Battuta give accounts of early world travel and exploration during the middle ages‚ these two explorers’ managed to travel the length of the Eurasian empire‚ while creating written accounts of their adventure. When comparing these two individual writings on their travels and perception of cultures‚ religion and trade also their reasons for travel it is imperative that we acknowledge that these two individuals came from very different back rounds Polo a Christian and Battuta a Muslim
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As Wolfe describes it‚ thousands of Muslims flocked to reach the holy city of Mecca each year. He uses the accounts of two travelers‚ Ibn Battuta and Ibn Jubayr‚ to explain the journey of the people who went to the hajj. It is important to note that Ibn Jubayr went on the journey a century before Ibn Battuta and Ibn Jubayr spent years on the journey while Ibn Battuta spent three months. These differences are important because it shows how the journeys became more faster over the
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Document 3: The Alchemy of Happiness‚ Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali. - discusses the relationship between God and his followers. - portrayed as a short story with the inquiry of the Prophet. [ unified ] Document 4: Book of the Maghrib by Ibn Said‚ 13th century. - portrays the conflicts the Iberian peninsula‚ Andalus‚ had to face. - during three centuries and a half‚ Andalus reached an utmost degree of power and prosperity under the rule of princes of the dynasty. [ divided ] Document
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There is much to be learned about societies throughout history just from reading the texts that originated from them. Hammurabi’s Code‚ Zarathustra’s teachings on Good and Evil‚ Laozi’s Living in Harmony with Dao and Ibn Battuta’s text on Customs all provide a narrative on different aspects of culture including religious practice‚ governance‚ architecture‚ and societal structure. Hammurabi’s Code illustrates the patriarchal society and the class system that was present in the Old Babylonian Empire
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mercy to anyone who is guilty of the least act of it. There is complete security in their country. Neither traveler nor inhabitant in it has anything to fear from robbers. Source: Ibn Battuta‚ Traztels in Asia and Africa 1325-1354‚ tr. and ed. H.A.R. Gibb‚ Broadway House‚ 1929 (adapted) \Alhat two things impressed Ibn Battuta about Mali? Document 7 This description of the lost-wax process of making bronze sculpture comes from an oral account of a Hausa artisan. In the name of Allah the Compassionate
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impact on the history of the world. Without contributions from caliphs like Ibn Fadlan‚ traders like Abraham bin Yuji‚ and nobles such as Ibn Battuta‚ our world would be very different today. Xuanzang‚ a Buddhist monk‚ fled his Chinese monastery illegally to travel to India‚ and retuned after 17 years‚ around the same time the Tang dynasty began‚ where he later reunited with his brother‚ and remained a buddhist monk. Ibn Fadlan‚ a noble who traveled to Almish hoping to ally with him‚ was forced to
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Nigel Lewis November 17‚ 2010 2nd Period DBQ: The Mongol Terror‚ Mongol Peace Although many Mongols conquered peoples of Eurasia viewed the invasion as negative during the 13th and 14th centuries‚ many viewed this intrusion as positive According to Carpini and William of Rubrick‚ they both have positive things to say about the Mongols. I say this because document 1 states that the Mongols pay their lords more respect than any other people‚ and would hardly dare lie to them (Doc #1). I think
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our fisc twelve pounds of silver‚ but we decree that to him whose slave he is he shall bring another of the same value in addition to that same fugitive. * The law above comes from what Byzantine Code? * What is the main idea of the law? Ibn Battuta: Travels in Asia and Africa 1325-1354 Jerusalem and its holy sites Among the grace-bestowing sanctuaries of Jerusalem is a building‚ situated on the farther side of the valley called the valley of Jahannam [Gehenna] to the east of the town‚ on
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merchant and soldier from his book‚ Decadas da Asia completed in 1520s about his travels along east Africa’s coast)‚ 5 (Abdul Hassan ibn Ali al Mas’udi‚ Arab traveler‚ merchant and geographer‚ from Cairo and Baghdad‚ late 10th century C.E. about his trips to the East African coastal area of el-Zanj‚ the Swahili peoples between Somalia and Mozambique) and 7 (Ibn Battuta‚ Muslim traveler and
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