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2. Merchants could intermarriage, most likely because they were wealthy. Merchants could eat off Chinese porcelain due to being involved with the gold trade. Merchants could own slaves and take them as gifts. Merchants could travel to other places which allowed them to get more valuable goods or leave a place when it smelled bad.
3. Answering the questions on a map was probably supposed to help us distinguish the locations of the different cities. However it didn't end up working very well because the map doesn't scroll with the notes. Seeing the image though still helped with finding the location of the first three places.

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1. Non-Muslims were most likely the one who were enslaved. I'd assume that they would also not be Christians or Jews because they are people of the book.
2. Slaves were traded because they could be used to do manual labor

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2. They became more diverse due to trade as many immagrants came and married locals. They accepted other ideas because they traded with the chinese.

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2. People from all over came to try to get rich. Even the sultan spoke many languages. The legal advisor was egyptian which shows diversity and pluralism was accepted. Multiple languages were used.
3. Intermarriage probably spread Islam which eventually unified the whole area under Islamic values.

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2. ivory, gold, myrrh, animal skins, frankincense, ambergris, and slaves
3. He thought it was very smelly and dirty

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2. There were other Muslims which accepted him. People had to be accepting of diversity to peacefully trade. Monsoons and triangular sails made travel easier.