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Which of the following best explains how Ibn Battuta could write about the sultan's court in such detail?
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Song China, Dar al-Islam, South and Southeast Asia, and state building in the Americas, Africa and Europe.
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The Silk Roads, the Mongol Empire, the Indian Ocean and trans-Saharan trade, and what the exchange spread.
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Ibn Battuta, a Moroccan traveler who had served as a judge in Delhi in the 1330s and 1340s, on Sultan Muhammad ibn Tughluq, account written in 1355
This king is of all men the fondest of making gifts and of shedding blood. His gate is never without some poor man enriched or some living man executed, and stories are current amongst the people of his generosity and courage and of his cruelty and violence towards criminals. For all that, he is of all men the most humble and the readiest to show equity and justice.
A historian's interpretation
States in the Americas took many forms. At Cahokia, near the Mississippi River, a Mississippian society built great earthen mounds and may have held 10,000 to 20,000 people around 1100, supported by maize farming and trade along the river system. In the Southwest, Ancestral Puebloans built multistory stone dwellings in Chaco Canyon and cliff houses at Mesa Verde, but severe drought in the late 1200s helped drive people from Mesa Verde. In the Yucatán, Maya city-states such as Mayapán competed for power and tribute and never united into a single empire.
Question 2
The fate of Mesa Verde described in the excerpt best illustrates
Ibn Battuta, a Moroccan traveler, on the people of Mali, 1350s
They are seldom unjust, and have a greater abhorrence of injustice than any other people. Their sultan shows no mercy to anyone who is guilty of the least act of it. There is complete security in their country. Neither traveller nor inhabitant in it has anything to fear from robbers or men of violence. . . . They are careful to observe the hours of prayer, and assiduous in attending them in congregations, and in bringing up their children to them. . . . On Fridays, if a man does not go early to the mosque, he cannot find a corner to pray in, on account of the crowd.
Question 3
Ibn Battuta's praise of Mali's safety and piety most likely reflects his point of view as
The voyages of Zheng He (original summary)
Between 1405 and 1433 the Ming court sent seven great fleets into the Indian Ocean under the admiral Zheng He, a Muslim from Yunnan who served the emperor as a court eunuch. The largest fleets carried more than 20,000 men in many large ships. They called at ports in Southeast Asia, India, the Persian Gulf, Arabia and the East African coast, carrying silk and porcelain as gifts and bringing back envoys, tribute and exotic animals. Rulers who acknowledged the Ming emperor received gifts and the right to trade. After 1433 the court ended the voyages and turned its attention to the northern frontier.
Question 4
The summary best supports which claim about the purpose of the voyages?
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