Marco Polo Vs Ibn Battuta
Marco Polo:
- Class Structure- Born into a wealthy Venetian merchant family. Then when traveling to china, the emperor appointed him for his service.
- Family- Niccolò Polo, Nicole Anna Defuseh.
Social
Ibn Battuta
Class Structure: Born into a family of Islamic Legal Scholars.
In his time in India he managed to acquire a position as a Qadi in the sultan of Delhi's court.
Marco Polo
By the numbers
War: Marco commanded a ship in a war against the rival city of Genoa. He was eventually captured and sentenced to a Genoese prison.
Global Structures: Khan provided Marco and his family with a 'paiza' — a gold tablet which authorized him to make use of a vast network of imperial horses and lodgings.
Marco Polo
Interaction
with
Enviroment
- Some cases say that marco polo had the Black Plague known then as the Black death.
- Settlement Patterns: His settlement patterns are from Venice to Asia.
- Impact On natural barriers: He invoked a desire to future Europeans to engage in Eastern interactions and trade.
Ibn Battuta
- Also had Bubonic plague (black plague).
- Settlement Patterns: 44 modern countries which were then mostly under the governments of Muslim leaders of the World of Islam, or "Dar al-Islam.
Ibn Battuta
Marco Polo
Cultural
- Religion-Roman Catholic
- Language- Mongolian, Persian, Arabic, and Turkish.
- Writting- When Marco Polo traveled, he wrote a book called "The Travels of Marco Polo" he wrote in the same languages he spoke.
- Education- Before marco polo's mother died, she taught marco polo how to read and write.
Ibn Battuta
- Religion- Sharia, the sacred law of the Muslims.
- Language- Somali (referred to by Battuta as Mogadishan, the Benadir dialect of Somali) and Arabic.
- Writting-Rihla.
- Education- A degree in islamic law.
Questions
1. What Language did both Marco Pollo and Ibn Battuta speak?
A- Chinese
B- Arabic
C- Hebrew
D- Mongolian
2. "Apparently", what disease did Polo and Battuta have?
A- Malaria
B- Influenza
C- Small Pox
D- Black Plague
Works Cited
- https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/big-history-project/expansion-interconnection/exploration-interconnection/a/marco-polo
- http://www.indiana.edu/~dmdhist/ibnbattuta.htm
- https://www.biography.com/people/marco-polo-9443861
- https://www.livescience.com/27513-marco-polo.html
- https://sites.google.com/a/umn.edu/historpedia/home/interaction-exchange/marco-polo-s-effects-on-the-east-and-the-west-fall-2012
- https://orias.berkeley.edu/resources-teachers/travels-ibn-battuta
- https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/big-history-project/expansion-interconnection/exploration-interconnection/a/ibn-battuta
Works Cited