HISTORY
THE MUSLIM WORLD AND AFRICA
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ship building
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textile production
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industrial growth
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trans-Saharan trade network
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Detailed explanation-1: -Trans-Saharan trade resulted in economic expansion across Northern and Western Africa. Large Islamic trading empires developed that controlled West African trade. These trading empires converted to Islam and supported the development of Islamic culture in the region.
Detailed explanation-2: -From the seventh to the eleventh century, trans-Saharan trade linked the Mediterranean economies that demanded gold-and could supply salt-to the sub-Saharan economies, where gold was abundant.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Ghana Empire lay in the Sahel region to the north of the West African gold fields, and was able to profit by controlling the trans-Saharan gold trade, which turned Ghana into an empire of legendary wealth.