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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

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

Political

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

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