U3S2 Quiz

Cornell Notes

9 Fact  Ibn Battuta
Ibn Battuta, a young Arab lawyer from Morocco, set out in 1325 to see the Muslim world.

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sultan

Muslim leader

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Swahili

Refers to culture and language of East Africa

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clan

Group of families related by blood or marriage

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• Most African groups
• shared belief in one supreme god

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Islam popular in Western African cities where rulers
and traders accept it by choice or
because it helped them trade with Muslim Arabs

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• Mansa Musa, leader of Mali
• Libraries at Timbuktu to collected books from Muslim world
• Pilgrimage to Makkah in 1324

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Askia Muhammad

Made Timbuktu an important center of Islamic culture and learning with a university known throughout the Muslim world
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Most successful African empires had centralized government ruled by kings or queens