Final

5.   Cosmopolitan Islamic civilization in the Middle Ages as illustrated by the traveling career of Abu Abdullah Ibn Battuta.

 In reviewing The Adventures of Ibn Battuta, think about the following issues:

a)   How did Islamic civilization become so widespread in the Middle Ages, reaching from one end of the Intercommunicating zone to the other?

b)  What made Islam a unified civilization, even though it included, as Christianity did, people of many different languages and cultures?

c)   Why was it relatively easy for him to travel such long distances in the 14th century and do so in relative safety?

d)  What was the relationship between Ibn Battuta's class status, education, or reputation and the kinds of experiences he had in India, the Maldives, and West Africa?

All the aforementioned questions on Ibn Battuta will be discussed on the final exam review session.  Two out of six questions for final exam will be drawn from question # 5

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