The major goods there were gold and salt.

At this time, the Islam was growing very big and a lot of Africans switched religions to Islam.

Before, it was harder for people to travel in the trans saharan trade route, because they had to walk it all, and it was very hard in the desert without a lot of water and food,  but then they discovered the camel saddles, which helped them a lot because they can walk long time without water, so now the people how traveled there didn't have to walk and had the water for themselves   - and now people could travel to many more places and make trades.

They also started to travel in caravans (a big group of traders traveling together), because they were a lot of people they could easily protect themselves from an attack.

 At the age 22, he decided he would make his way to Mecca as part of the pilgrimage - a journey that all muslims are supposed to do. Because of the of the islam was growing at that time, he could go on his journey to many places and explore them.

Ibn Battuta visited the most Islamic places, in his journey to get to Mecca, and wrote about his journeys in a book. Ibn Battuta traveled more than any other explorer.

They traveled to towns on the Nile, he said that the people there gave him money. He said that travelers on the Nile do not need to bring food or many other things because they can easily stop on the bank for washing, praying or getting supplies.

There are also markets all along the route from Alexandia to Cairo.

We can see that religious affect Ibn Battuta a lot, he always travels with people the are in the Islam, and go to all of the places that are holy for the Islam, he talks about how the Islam affect him and about his prayings, and we can see that he is talking about other people who believe in the Islam and saying that they are very kind and good

At the time they were scared of meeting wandering Arabs so when Ibn was sick they couldn't let his heavy bag slow him down - Because Ibn Battuta was very religious and believed very much in the Islam he believed that he has to finish his journey and keep going, because this is a very important journey for the Islam and he wanted to see all of these important places, so one of his friends let him take food, clothes and water from him so that they could avoid the Arabs without delays.

They traded chinese porcelain dishes also they include some valuable goods 

They were respectful especially to the north africans and the pilgrims and travellers received food, clothing, transport  and housing support. They value that Damascus cares more to the people that are pilgrims because they are going to mecca.