1. The Development of Africa
Google Image Search Development of Africa: What can you infer?

2. What do you know?
Reputation
Facts

3. How big is it?

4. MALI

5. Two People
Mansa Musa
Ibn Battuta

6. Mansa Musa

7. Map

8. Empire

9. Trade

10. Trade Mali traded gold, salt, nuts, and ivory which
Spain, Arabia, and Egypt
Mali very wealthy

11. Knowledge

12. Cultural Diffusion

13. Spread of Islam

14. Your Task: Post Cards for Mom

15. Dahomey

16. The Ashanti

17.
Welcome to this tour of Ibn Battuta's medieval travels. You will be following in the footsteps of this famous 14th century Muslim traveler, exploring the places he visited and the people he encountered. To help you learn more about his adventures there will be images of the people and places he saw, information on the food he might have tasted, and "side trips" into the past and future.
Ibn Battuta started on his travels when he was 20 years old in His main reason to travel was to go on a Hajj, or a Pilgrimage to Mecca, as all good Muslims want to do. But his traveling went on for about 29 years and he covered about 75,000 miles visiting the equivalent of 44 modern countries which were then mostly under the governments of Muslim leaders of the World of Islam, or "Dar al-Islam".