The striving of Islam in Africa in 5 maps: Rivers of Africa; African empires and trade routes; Early Portuguese contact and trading posts in West Africa; Portuguese expansion and major African kingdoms; Trade routes in the medieval Islamic world.
Drawing analogies & reaching conclusions.
Did geography determine the success and failure of fifteenth-century African empires and States?
Does African history fit into Jared Diamond’s guns, germs, and steel story?
Why did Islam progressed in north Africa during the eleventh to fifteenth centuries? Did geography play a role?
Why did Europe seek to expand into Africa?
What did Portugal find in the Sahel region? Did it allow Portugal to achieve its mercantilism goals?
