EDUCATION UGC NET
HISTRY OF EDUCATION IN SUBCONTINENT
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Western coast of South Asia
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Western coast of North Asia
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Eastern coast of South Asia
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Northern coast of South Asia
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Detailed explanation-1: -Trade Routes Major trade cities included Mecca, Medina, Constantinople, Baghdad, Morocco, Cairo, and Cordoba.
Detailed explanation-2: -From its origins in western Saudi Arabia, Islam spread to vast regions of Asia and Africa in a relatively short period of time. Islam entered Pakistan around the eighth century AD. From there, it spread first eastward into northern India and Bangladesh, then into southern India after AD 1250.
Detailed explanation-3: -The earliest immigrants from the Arab world arrived as merchants to the Malabar coastal region of South West India, today consisting of the state of Kerala. Many of these Arab merchants intermarried with local women.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Arabs land trade, which spanned from their hometown in south of Yemen has touched the trades in Silk Road and Indian Ocean trade particularly in which the modern historians coined in “Frankincense and myrrh” theory, which spread by them through camel caravans.