1. Which of the following characteristics of the African coastal kingdoms best explains why
Ibn Battuta was intrigued as discussed in the passage?
(A) In key places along important trade routes, merchants set up diasporic communities where
they introduced their own cultural traditions
(B) Along important trade routes, merchants introduced their own cultural traditions into the
indigenous cultures and, in turn, indigenous cultures influenced merchant cultures.
(C) The local rulers had established complex trade systems that facilitated the widespread
exchange of plants, animals, and diseases
(D) The African trading kingdoms had openly embraced Islamic merchants as the predominant
leaders in their empires during the fourteenth century