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● Tropical Lands and Peoples
● New Islamic Empires
● Indian Ocean Trade
● Social and Cultural Change
● Conclusion
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DIVERSITY + DOMINANCE Personal Styles of Rule in India and Mali
ENVIRONMENT + TECHNOLOGY The Indian Ocean Dhow
East African Pastoralists Herding large and small livestock has long been a way of life in drier parts of the tropics.
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Tropical Africa and Asia, 1200–1500
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ultan Abu Bakr (a-BOO BAK-uhr) customarily
■ How did environmental differences shape cultural differences in tropical Africa and Asia? offered hospitality to distinguished visitors to his
■ Under what circumstances did the first Islamic city of Mogadishu, an Indian Ocean port on the empires arise in Africa and India? northeast coast of Africa. In 1331, he provided food and
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How did cultural and ecological differences prolodging for Muhammad ibn Abdullah Ibn Battuta (IB-uhn mote trade, and in turn how did trade and other ba-TOO-tuh) (1304–1369), a young Muslim scholar from contacts promote state growth and the spread
Morocco who had set out to explore the Islamic world. of Islam?
With a pilgrimage to Mecca and travel throughout the
■ What social and cultural changes are reflected
Middle East behind him, Ibn Battuta was touring the in the history of peoples living in tropical Africa trading cities of the Red Sea and East Africa. Subseand Asia during this