Islam

6.1 - ESPIRIT Chart: Arabian Society Before Islam 6.2 - Islam Documentary Notes

Q: Explain how the expansion of Islam created a global trading network. Make specific references to trading zones/cities/ideas/methods of spread/technology. Islam expanded to areas such as North and Sub-Sahara Africa, Southeast Asia, Europe, and India through trade. For example, Malacca in Southeast Asia was a trading empire and provoked the greater expansion of Islam throughout Southeast Asia. Islam was spread through the Arabian boats which carried goods from merchants in India to those in Southeast Asia. In Africa, the first wave of Islam came to Africa through series of merchants and trade. Since Islam was spread through trade, the trade routes were maintained and kept open because of the common similarity of Islam. Swahili people reopened the Afro-Eurasian trading routes. Islam took the ideas of the areas it spread to and solidified and improved their ideas, for example, the Indian numbering system. - dhows - Silk Road - Pilgrimage to Mecca - Sahel GOLD