HISTORY
THE MUSLIM WORLD AND AFRICA
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Revolution in agriculture technology as goods and technology spread across the empire.
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Hostilities as conquered people refused to share their goods & ideas
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End of learning as Islamic cities refused to preserve the books & ideas of anyone NOT a Muslim
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War as jihad was waged against all non-believers and Jesus was resurrected
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Detailed explanation-1: -Under the Abbasids the caliphate entered a new phase. Instead of focusing, as the Umayyads had done, on the West-on North Africa, the Mediterranean, and southern Europe-the caliphate now turned eastward. The capital was moved to the new city of Baghdad, and events in Persia and Transoxania were closely watched.
Detailed explanation-2: -They took sugarcane from India and spread its cultivation to other parts of the world. They introduced coffee wherever they went. They popularised the use of the Persian water wheel that uses strength of draught animals to irrigate farms. Islam spread in coastal India through sea merchants.
Detailed explanation-3: -Islam spread through military conquest, trade, pilgrimage, and missionaries. Arab Muslim forces conquered vast territories and built imperial structures over time.
Detailed explanation-4: -Rural landlords were so well connected during the Abbasid period, especially after al-Mutawakkil’s khilafah (847–861), that they eventually amassed huge estates, and a plantation economy began to appear in the mid tenth century. Many of these large plantations produced cash crops such as rice, cotton, and sugarcane.