HISTORY
THE MUSLIM WORLD AND AFRICA
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Question
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They provided funding to facilitate trade.
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They protected Muslim communities.
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They banned the merchants from certain areas.
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They forced the merchants to pay high tolls along the trade routes.
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Detailed explanation-1: -How did local East African rulers deal with Arab and Persian merchants in the 600s? They provided funding to facilitate trade.
Detailed explanation-2: -How did Arab Muslims primarily interact with East African city-states? How did trade affect the culture of East African city-states? D. Trade attracted people from many regions to the city-states, bringing more cultural diffusion.
Detailed explanation-3: -Emigrations were the main cause of spreading of Islam to the southern regions of Africa, especially in the eastern and southeastern areas and also in the Horn of Africa. Arabs were familiar with these regions and travelled there via the Red Sea, before Islam.
Detailed explanation-4: -The effects of the Arabs to the people of East African coast were social, economic and political in nature. Others were negative and positive. Islam was spread from the coast into the interior of East Africa. The Arabs took over leadership at the coast of East Africa.