Read the following passage and answer the questions given below:
“Ibn Battuta, a fourteenth-century traveler from Morocco, Africa, explained that chieftains sometimes “fortified themselves in mountains, in rocky, uneven and rugged places as well as in bamboo groves. In India the bamboo is not hollow; it is big. Its several parts are so intertwined that even fire cannot affect them, and they are on the whole very strong. The chieftains live in these forests which serve them as ramparts, inside which are their cattle and their crops. There is also water for them within, that is, rain water which collects there. Hence they cannot be subdued except by powerful armies, who entering these forests, cut down the bamboos with specially prepared instruments.”
1. Who was Ibn Battuta?
2. What information did Ibn Battuta provide regarding the chieftains in India?
How did powerful armies subdue these chieftains?

Question

Read the following passage and answer the questions given below:
“Ibn Battuta, a fourteenth-century traveler from Morocco, Africa, explained that chieftains sometimes “fortified themselves in mountains, in rocky, uneven and rugged places as well as in bamboo groves. In India the bamboo is not hollow; it is big. Its several parts are so intertwined that even fire cannot affect them, and they are on the whole very strong. The chieftains live in these forests which serve them as ramparts, inside which are their cattle and their crops. There is also water for them within, that is, rain water which collects there. Hence they cannot be subdued except by powerful armies, who entering these forests, cut down the bamboos with specially prepared instruments.”
1.	Who was Ibn Battuta?				
2.	What information did Ibn Battuta provide regarding the chieftains in India?						
How did powerful armies subdue these chieftains?

Accepted Answer

Ibn Battuta was a traveller from Morocco, Africa.
He said that sometimes chieftains fortified themselves in mountains, in rocky, uneven and rugged places as well as in bamboo groves. They live in the forests which serve them as ramparts, inside which are their cattle and their crops.
The powerful armies enter these forests and cut down bamboos with specially prepared instruments.

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