HISTORY
THE MUSLIM WORLD AND AFRICA
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many African states began to feel threatened by outside cultures and withdrew to isolation.
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Islam spread to west Africa and became the dominant faith.
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merchants brought back plagues that destroyed much of west African population.
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African states refused to meet world demands for slave populations.
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Detailed explanation-1: -To reach West Africa, the religion of Islam joined the caravans of Amazigh traders. The Amazigh people were merchants who were a large part of the trans-Saharan trade. These caravans would cross the Sahara Desert to trade with the large, rich sub-Saharan empires, and they brought the religion with them.
Detailed explanation-2: -With full Muslim control of the western half of the Silk Road by mid-8th century, any long-distance exchange had to traverse Muslim lands, giving trade a central role in the further propagation of the religion. Muslim merchants carried the message of Islam wherever they traveled.
Detailed explanation-3: -During the 14th century, and later the 15th century, the primary trading goods along the Trans-Saharan trade routes were gold, salt, precious metals, such as copper and iron, ivory, spices, materials, such as skins, cloth, and leather, and also slaves.
Detailed explanation-4: -The trade routes through the Nile Valley helped Islam spread from Sudan through Uganda. And maritime routes from Arabia across the Red Sea to major ports like Zanzibar spread Islam along East Africa.