HISTORY
THE MUSLIM WORLD AND AFRICA
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Muslims banished outsiders.
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Muslims created a cultural reawakening.
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Muslims made Arabic the region’s dominant language.
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Muslims disrupted the region’s educational system.
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Detailed explanation-1: -What was one of the significant aspects of Muslim domination of North Africa’s cities in the 690s? Muslims banished outsiders.
Detailed explanation-2: -Mecca was a center of trade. When camel caravans left Mecca, they carried Muhammad’s teachings with them. Islam diffused from Mecca and spread throughout the Middle East and into Central Asia and North Africa.
Detailed explanation-3: -Between the eighth and ninth centuries, Arab traders and travelers, then African clerics, began to spread the religion along the eastern coast of Africa and to the western and central Sudan (literally, “Land of Black people”), stimulating the development of urban communities.
Detailed explanation-4: -How did the Muslim caliphates affect early North African civilizations? B. They set up an effective trade network linked to India and China. How did the prosperity of West Africa’s smaller societies compare with Africa’s much larger kingdoms?
Detailed explanation-5: -Muslims in Africa mostly adhere to the Sunni Islam, with sizable Ibadi adherents.