Quaestio: How did Indian
Ocean Trade impact East Africa?
Nunc Agenda: Finish
discussion of Sundiata using
yesterday’s classwork
What is a Monsoon?
Ivory
“The Cities of the Zanj
and Indian Ocean Trade”
Discuss the questions as a class
Please add to the discussion if you can
Cite exactly where in the text you are
referencing
“The Cities of the Zanj
and Indian Ocean Trade”
 Muhammad Al-Idrisi: Geographer and Cartographer working
for the Norman king of Sicily who used information from
Muslim merchants and Norman voyagers to create the most
accurate world map and write about different parts of the
world
 Zhao Rugua (Chau Ju-Kua): Customs inspector in Song
Dynasty China who did not travel but learned about other
lands from foreign traders
 Abu al-Fida: Syrian prince of the Kurdish Ayyubid dynasty who
fought in the Crusades in his youth and later wrote about the
peoples of the world
“The Cities of the Zanj
and Indian Ocean Trade”
Discuss the questions as a class
Please add to the discussion if you can
Cite exactly where in the text you are
referencing
Pensa
 Ibn Battuta reading and questions