Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
25.09.2014
Herausgeber
Oliver RolandVerlag
Cambridge AcademicSeitenzahl
818
Maße (L/B/H)
23.5/15.7/4.8 cm
Gewicht
1206 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-521-20981-6
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. But throughout the period African states, large and small, were strong enough, relatively, to control their visitors from the outside world. The main significance of the outsiders, whether Muslim or Christian, was as literate observers of the African scene.
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