In what ways do you think Ibn Battuta might have been shaped by the people, places, and ideas he encountered in his journeys? How might the people he met have been shaped by him? Explain your answer.

Ibn Battuta could have been shaped by people, places and ideas that he visited in a cultural way, making him have a very diverse and rich thought about culture, respect and tolerance for differences.

People could have been shaped by him academically, since he had a formal and efficient education. In addition, people could be shaped by the vast worldview he had.

Explanation:

Ibn Battuta was a young man from a family of Muslim judges. He received a traditional and very complete and efficient education, which gave him a strong academic and intellectual reasoning, in addition to a strong religious sense that he received from his family.

When deciding to make a pilgrimage to Mecca, Battuta falls in love with the travels and the knowledge he could gain from it. He was very shaped by the cultural differences he witnessed in the places where he went and that showed him tolerance and gave him a very diverse and effective knowledge. However, he also impacted people and shaped them with all his academic, religious and social knowledge.