The great traveler Ibn Battuta, who was born in 1304 at Tangier where present day Morocco sits along the North African coast. He first ventured out when he was only twenty-one and journeyed the entire eastern hemisphere until he was over fifty years of age. Ibn Battuta trekked across many lands and through present day countries such as Egypt, Syria, Turkey, Russia, India, China, Indonesia, and even Spain. But all of this has been done by European and Asian travelers and have been documented centuries before Battuta. What truly s