Explorer Study: Ibn Battuta

I particularly wanted to study the Islamic, medieval explorer Ibn Battuta.  Being a contemporary of Marco Polo, who we had studied at the beginning of the year, I felt a comparison study would be quite interesting.  Both travelled widely throughout the Eastern Medieval world; both met with similar tribes and peoples; and most importantly both wrote about…

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The Other Side of the Crusades: The Muslims

Over the last few weeks the children have been learning about Islam, the primary religion (and way of life) that made up the other side of the Crusades.  This has taken much longer than I anticipated and we still have not quite finished.  This post is primarily about the Islamic religion. I wanted to attempt to give a…

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