The Earth and It's Peoples
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| 5180658221 | Ibn Battuta | 1304-1369; Moroccan Muslim scholar, most widely traveled individual of his time. Wrote a detailed account of his visits to Islamic lands from China to Spain and the western Sudan. | 0 | |
| 5180658222 | Mali | Empire created by the indigenous Muslims in western Sudan of West Africa from the thirteenth to fifteenth century. Was famous for its role in the trans-Saharan gold trade. | 1 | |
| 5180658223 | Mansa Kankan Musa | Ruler of Mail (r. 1312-1337) His pilgrimage through Rgypt to Mecca in 1324-1325 established the empire's reputation for wealtg in the Mediterranean world. | 2 | |
| 5180658224 | Dhows | Characteristic cargo and passenger ships of the Arabian Sea. | 3 | |
| 5180658225 | Great Zimbabwe | City, now in ruins, whose many stone structures were built between about 1250 and 1450, when it was the trading center and capital of a larger state. | 4 | |
| 5180658226 | Timbuktu | City on the Niger River in the modern country of Mali. Founded by the Tuareg as a seasonal camp sometime after 1000. As a part of the Mali Empire, it became a major terminus of the trans-Saharan trade and center of Islamic learning. | 5 |
