In a few centuries, the originally Arab-centered religion grew to cover the expanses of western, eastern, and northern Africa, as well as huge territories in Eurasia. ... From its humble beginnings in the middle of Arabia, the Islamic religion began a ceaseless and rapid growth across Afro-Eurasia largely in part to the powerful Muslim armies and rulers, the simple Koranic messages of equality which trumped the local beliefs, and the ability of Muslim traders to spread out from the Islamic empire and spread the ideas of Islam around the world. ... These armies successfully drove through North...

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They, therefore, set about with a concerted effort to translate the philosophical and scientific works available to them, not only from the Greek and Syrian languages (the languages of eastern Christian scholars), but also from Pahlavi, the scholarly language of pre-Islamic Persia, and even from Sanskrit, an ancient Indian language. ... Western View of Islam in the Middle Ages. ...

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E Pluribus Unum "When an Iowan buys a Pontiac from General Motors, 60% of his money goes to South Korea, Japan, West Germany, Taiwan, Singapore, Britain, and Barbados".(Iyer, BR p. 306) In our world today, we exchange language, goods, values, and people. This idea of the increasingly diversified...

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The highly demanded spices and teas were brought to the Middle East and even Europe. ... Arabian sailors set up small urban centers on the eastern coast of Africa, to trade ivory and gold with the Middle East, India and China. ...

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At the same time, many European artists of the Middle Ages and early Renaissance did not sign or date their work either. ... There are many elaborate and important objects from Igbo-Ukwu, in eastern Nigeria. ... The naturalistic memorial heads of deceased kings of Ife are dated to the middle of the 13th century by archaeologists. ...

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Egyptian mismanagement of the economy and military and a continually more strained relationship with France who had held considerable sway since the Napoleonic era in Egypt created an opportunity for England to become more important in Egyptian affairs which the English desired because of the importance of the Suez Canal as an eastern trade route (Porter, p. 92-93). ... The British had been present in Nigeria since the middle of the 19th century with many small companies involved in the palm oil and coco industries in 1879 these small companies were merged together through the leadership of...

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It did not start in London or Paris, Berlin or Rome; it grew out of Africa, a place that was thought of as a place bearing primitive savage cultures and people till the middle of the last century. ... I believe in answering how Africa has contributed to our world history you have to show exactly how advanced these races and cultures were before even setting foot into what is now thought as the modern western and eastern world. ...

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Introduction Derek Walcott's "A Far Cry from Africa," published in 1962, is a painful and jarring depiction of ethnic conflict and divided loyalties. The opening images of the poem are drawn from accounts of the Mau Mau Uprising, an extended and bloody battle during the 1950s between European settlers and the native Kikuyu tribe in what is now the republic of Kenya. In the early twentieth century, the first white settlers arrived in the region, forcing the Kikuyu people off of their tribal lands. Europeans took control of farmland and the government, relegating the Kikuyu to a ...

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The trans-Atlantic slave trade was the largest long-distance coerced movement of people in history and, prior to the mid-nineteenth century, formed the major demographic well-spring for the re-peopling of the Americas following the collapse of the Amerindian population. Cumulatively, as late as 1820, nearly four Africans had crossed the Atlantic for every European, and, given the differences in the sex ratios between European and African migrant streams, about four out of every five females that traversed the Atlantic were from Africa. From the late fifteenth century, the Atlantic O...

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