Chapter 13-AP World History Flashcards

The Earth and It's Peoples

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