World history dates

Who was Ibn Battuta?

a Maghrebi Muslim traveller, explorer and scholar

When did Ibn Battuta live?

1304 – 1368/1369

Who was al-Umari?

he was an Arab historian born in Damascus

What is inportant to remeber about the works of al-Umari

His storys of mansa musa came from normal people retelling the stories a decade after the king came through

What were the years of al-‘Umārī?

(1301 – 1349)

What is the maden charter

one of the earliest constitutions and declarations of rights

What is inportant to note about the manden charter

This text was first put into writing at a conference of griots in the 1990s, before that point handed down oraly

what is the apporx year for the Maden charters creation?

 c. 1236

Inportant thing to note about about Ibn Battuta

he was outsider