G4 HG Ch8 Task

1 What are some of the places that Ibn Battuta traveled to?

2 Do you think Ibn Battuta would have been interested in

traveling to as many parts of the world as he did if he had not made his

pilgrimage to Mecca?

3 What kind of work did Ibn Battuta do during his travels?

4 How did Ibn Battuta’s stay in Mecca help him when he

started his many years of travels?

5 Why is Ibn Battuta’s book, Rihlah, such a valuable source of

information about the Muslim world in the late 1300s?

6 Why were world travelers so rare in Ibn Battuta’s time?