Ibn Battuta

25 07, 2017

Islamic geographers – Medieval Islam

By |2019-07-03T10:11:08-07:00July 25th, 2017|History, Islam, Science|Comments Off on Islamic geographers – Medieval Islam

Islamic geographers: al-Idrisi's map of the world (1100s AD) Universities in the Islamic Empire Silk Road and Indian Ocean trade made many people in the Islamic Empire rich enough to send [...]

8 06, 2017

Old World Cotton History – India, Africa, Asia, Europe

By |2019-04-27T06:12:40-07:00June 8th, 2017|Clothing, India|Comments Off on Old World Cotton History – India, Africa, Asia, Europe

India cotton bolls hanging from the plants India cotton farming About 2500 BC, a thousand years after people started to grow cotton in Peru, the Harappan people in India also [...]

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