Compare And Contrast Marco Polo And Battuta

Religion greatly influenced the way that Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta viewed the local people and their ruler. Kublai Khan incorporated Christianity and other religions, and Mansá Músá assimilated Islam into Malian culture. It is important to look at the way each religion altered certain societies. There are differences between the people’s reactions to the religion, and how Polo and Battuta’s own culture and personality affected their perceptions of different societies. As a result, it becomes clear that the personal biases of Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta alter the validity of their written accounts.
In 1286, a man by the name of Nayan tried to overthrow his nephew Kublai Khan also known as the Great Khan. When Kublai heard of his uncle’s plot Kublai gathered 260,000 Calvary and 100,000 infantry, with this he beat his uncle Nayan. “You must know that Nayan was a baptized Christian and in this battle he had the cross of Christ on his standard.” After Kublai won, peoples of other religions such as Jews, Saracens, and Idolaters mocked the crossed of Christ. Kublai was a man that was known to embrace all religions and tried not to favor one over the other so when a herd of …show more content…
When he returned he integrated more of Islamic culture with the Malian culture. Ibn Batuta describes accounts of various ceremonies and cultural norms that he witnessed that he viewed as odd. Battuta witnessed naked women unveiled in front of men who were not their husbands but their companions. He also depicts other various teachings and rituals. One-way Mansá Músá Taught his sons the Quran was memorization, if they did not memorize it certain sections what’s the word he would chain until then memorize it word for word. These corporations of the Islamic culture with Malian culture would alter the society in the people’s daily