HISTORY
THE MUSLIM WORLD AND AFRICA
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designed clothes for hot weather
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built windmills
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dug irrigation canals
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took salt out of ocean water
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Detailed explanation-1: -Islam spread through military conquest, trade, pilgrimage, and missionaries.
Detailed explanation-2: -Muslim rulers built great cities. Cultural diffusion occurred due to the location of Muslim lands where trade routes connected Asia and Europe. This allowed a flow of new ideas.
Detailed explanation-3: -To irrigate their land, they dug out large storage basins to hold water supplies. Then they dug canals, human-made waterways, that connected these basins to a network of ditches. These ditches brought water to the fields. To protect their fields from flooding, farmers built up the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates.
Detailed explanation-4: -Also known as the “Islamic Green Revolution” (hereafter IGR), this phenomenon involved significant westward diffusion of eastern crops (mainly from South and East Asia), along with requisite agricultural technologies and organizational infrastructure, facilitated by the Early Islamic empires.