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Title: African Trade Kingdoms


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African Trade Kingdoms
  • Islam Spreads After the End of the Expansion Era

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How Islam spread to sub-Saharan Africa
  • There were a series of powerful kingdoms in West
    Africa, that spanned a millennium, whose great
    wealth was based on trade not conquest.
  • Why is this unusual?

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North africa
  • North Africa great wealth and spread of Islam
    came by conquest.

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Sub-saharan africa gold
  • Ghana (south of the Sahara aka sub-Saharan)
  • Controlled the traffic (trade) in gold
  • Which is the most precious commodity traveling
    north

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Sub-saharan africa
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Slave trade
  • Slave trade is the second most valuable African
    commodity
  • Most slaves came from the area around Lake Chad

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Salt
  • Most important commodity coming south with the
    caravans is salt.
  • Regions of the Sahara produced this salt and
    traded it with those in the sub-Saharan

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Islam spreads
  • Africa is the first region into which Islam is
    carried by merchants rather than armies.
  • It spreads down the established trade routes of
    the east coast

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First converts
  • Muslim dynasty is established in Kilwa around
    1070 and spreads south down the trade routes
  • Many ruling classes convert to Islam

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Mali
  • Mansa Musa, sultan of Mali, decides to make the
    pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324
  • Great wealth of Mali was made famous by his
    pilgrimage
  • 60,000 people and camels carry 12 tons of gold

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Mansa musa
  • Ordered mosques be built
  • Encouraged studying the Quran
  • Islamic architecture
  • Imported books and scholars to spread the word of
    Allah
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