HISTORY
THE MUSLIM WORLD AND AFRICA
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grassland belt at the southern edge of the Sahara that served as a point of exchange between the forests of the south and north Africa.
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East African coastline that became the primary point of contact for Muslim merchants from India and southeast Asia and African traders.
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series of trading ports that rapidly developed along the Atlantic coast to support the trade in African slaves.
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forest zone of central Africa that remained free of Islamic influence largely because of the inability of the camel to withstand the climate of the region.
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the part of the Sahara that borders Egypt on the east and Tunesia in the west and the Mediterranean on the north.
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Detailed explanation-1: -It is defined as the ecoclimatic and biogeographic realm of transition between the Sahara to the north and the Sudanian savanna to the south. Having a hot semi-arid climate, it stretches across the south-central latitudes of Northern Africa between the Atlantic Ocean and the Red Sea.
Detailed explanation-2: -In pure geographic terms the Sahel, or Sahil in Arabic, meaning coast or shore, is a vast region that stretches along the Sahara desert’s southern rim from the Atlantic to the Red Sea. Wedged between the desert to the north and tropical forests and savannah to the south, the belt has a tropical semi-arid climate.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Sahel region is largely semi-arid belt of barren, sandy and rock-strewn land in Africa. It marks the physical and cultural transition between the continent’s more fertile tropical regions to the south and its desert in the north.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Sahel: On the Sahara’s Edge The Sahel lies on the southern border of the Sahara. Its name comes from the Arabic word sahel, which means “border” or “shore.” This region receives more rain than the Sahara, but it often suffers from long periods of drought.