Wyatt Winson

Why was Ibn Battuta’s exploration important?

Research Question: for my research question i asked myself what was ibn battuta was exploring for and was what he was exploring for important

Thesis: Ibn battuta helped many people understand Africa better because he explored all over the continent by looking at different perspectives of it he made maps of africa and africa’s trade routs and and wrote down things about their culture.

Topic Sentence #1: Ibn Battuta was a famous explorer because of the map he made in countries. He brought back many stories and described almost everything he saw to the people back in Europe and lots of those things were actually recorded in books. Ibn also made maps, he made maps of trade routes, of tons and Africa, and even tried to make one of the .Ibn Battuta came back with many stories of Africa, but people were most interested in the ones he told of the Sahara.

Topic Sentence #2: Ibn Battuta Visited many places in Africa to see all the different types of culture around the continent. Ibn Visited Cairo, Walata, mali, And also crossed the sahara Desert. His first visit to Africa was in 1326 while Mansa Musa, He described the trip with many mentioning of Mansa Musa giving food and gold to everyone. Battuta’s trip went from 1351 to 1353 most of the time he was there was spent crossing the sahara.
Topic Sentence #3: Ibn Battuta explored a bunch of places in the world just making maps along the way his exploration and maps helped many researchers back then and now. Battuta made hundreds of maps of Africa each for a different thing some of those maps are still used today. Ibn Battuta tried to make a map of the sahara but it was so much of nothing that he couldn’t. After Ibn Battuta returned many people visited Africa and tried to find more mysteries of Africa but none were as popular as Ibn

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