Did ibn battuta's travels influence other explorers? and how?

Ibn Battuta's travels influenced not only other explorers but his memories "Rihla" gave great details of the Muslim world's culture, social and political history. Some of his tellings on Asia Minor, East and West Africa, the Maldives, and India are an important source of this places' histories. He is known as the greatest medieval traveller and his influence and fame was not reached until the XIX century. He travelled 75000 miles through the muslim world.

swe hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. — that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. "

- declaration of independence

  according to this passage from the declaration of independence, who gives government the power to exist?

a) the king

b) the people

c) their creator

d) their governmenthook

the answer is b.2008 and 2012 were presidential election years.