How did change over time to the sahara affect human migration and settlement? the sahara’s increasing dryness and spreading desert made relocation necessary. seasonal flooding of sahara river valleys attracted farmers to settle in north africa. the sahara’s growing rainfall and decreasing size encouraged more and denser settlements. cooler and drier sahara weather attracted migrating people from tropical southern africa

The Muslim World and Africa-World History

1) monotheistic

2)Muhammad

3)Mecca & Medina

4)Muhammad's first revelations from God

5)The Quran is the holy book of Islam; Sharia is a system of laws

6) the unifying force of Islam

7)Inclusive

8)calligraphy

9)algebra

10)it was highly innovative and professional

11)Ottomans

12)The Ottomans had a theocratic monarchy, and the Safavids had a democratic

13)men of the Sword, men of negotiation, men of husbandry, men of the sword

14)he built it into a center for art and for the silk trade

15)Ottoman poets used Persian and Arab models to create Turkish poems

16)Sahara Desert

17)Bantu

18)through Arab conquest

19)the Sahara's increasing dryness and spreading desert made relocation necessary

20)it controlled the major trade routs through North Africa

21) gold&salt

22)its location gave it access to important trade routes

23)Muslim merchants and traders made the city a bustling center for commerce

24)in tropical and savanna Africa

25)some Ethiopians observed some Jewish holidays and dietary laws

26) social ranking

27)to connect with spiritual forces of the ancestors

28)its military prowess

29)by describing the words and actions of African ancestors and past events

30)workers for the family&connections of past with future

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d. it gave farmers a way to organize for more political power