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The Cambridge History of Africa (Hardcover)
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The Cambridge History of Africa (Hardcover)
Series: The Cambridge History of Africa, Volume 3
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The five and a half centuries described in this volume were those
in which Iron Age cultures passed from their early and experimental
phases into stages of maturity characterized by long-distance trade
and complex, many-tiered political systems. In Egypt and North
Africa it was a period of religious and cultural consolidation when
the Arabic language and the faith of Islam were adopted by the
majority of the indigenous Copts and Berbers. In the sub-Saharan
Savanna it was a period rather of penetration when Muslim merchants
and clerics built up small but significant minorities of Negro
African converts. Muslim migrants conquered the Nilotic Sudan,
encircled Christian Ethiopia and settled the coastline of eastern
Africa. Intercontinental trade developed across the whole width of
the Sahara and also toward the Indian Ocean ports. During the last
century and a half of the period the Portuguese opened the Atlantic
coasts and competed with the Muslim traders of the Indian Ocean.
But throughout the period African states, large and small, were
strong enough, relatively, to control their visitors from the
outside world.
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