HISTORY
THE MUSLIM WORLD AND AFRICA
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agriculture and technology
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cities and transportation
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sculpture and dance
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language and religion
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Detailed explanation-1: -Islamic merchants dealt in a wide variety of trade goods including sugar, salt, textiles, spices, slaves, gold, and horses. The expanse of the Islamic Empire allowed merchants to trade goods all the way from China to Europe. Many merchants became quite wealthy and powerful.
Detailed explanation-2: -Arab traders first introduced Islam to the Swahili coast in the ninth century.
Detailed explanation-3: -Islam was introduced through Muslim traders along several major trade routes that connected Africa below the Sahara with the Mediterranean Middle East, such as Sijilmasa to Awdaghust and Ghadames to Gao.
Detailed explanation-4: -Indeed, Greek and Persian both had significant impacts on Arabic, both conceptually and in the form of many borrowed words. The major powers of the area when Islam came into being, the Eastern Roman, or Byzantine Empire, and the Sasanian Empire, spoke Greek and Persian respectively.