Ibn_Battuta

Ibn Battuta Ibn Battuta; In Black Africa One page reaction paper The great traveler Ibn Battuta, who was born in 1304 at Tangier where present day Morocco sits along the North African coast. He first ventured out when he was only twenty-one and journeyed the entire eastern hemisphere until he was over fifty years of age. Ibn Battuta trekked across many lands and through present day countries such as Egypt, Syria, Turkey, Russia, India, China, Indonesia, and even Spain. But all of this has been done by European and Asian travelers and have been documented centuries before Battuta. What truly separates him form other great travelers of the day was his journeys to sub-Saharan African. His written accounts of his visits to the blossoming Swahili city-states on Africa's East Coast and the West African kingdom of Mali are one of the few primary historical sources for these civilizations in medieval times. Battuta is truly a window to the past, giving modern readers a look at the social, cultural, and political history of medieval African Islamic civilization. He was really the first outside presence to experience first hand and to record the accounts he witnessed in West Africa. Ibn Battuta paints battuta, ibn, africa, african, west, great, first, east, day, coast, about, visited, truly, travelers, times, sub-saharan, present, one, medieval, black, been, accounts, years, wrote, written, writings, words, women, witnessed, window, white, wealthy, wealth, warm, vivid