Islam

Explain how the expansion of Islam created Global (minus americans) trading network. Make specific refs to trading zones/cities/ideals/methods of spread technology. The expansion of Islam created a Global trading network by that when it started to become more advanced with technology, for example Dhows to help go beyond places from their pennisula and the use of the Silk road. The silk road was not in much use during the later years causing Islam to search for another way of trade. Islam started to spead to Europe, Southeast Asia, the northern part of Africa and India. They spread through using the method of peace rather than forcing a new way of life on them; religion. Malacca and Demak came to be after the fall of the Shivijaya empire because of Islam was making a replacement for trade. And used merchants to spread their ideals to the other regions and try to get ** conversions ** like in Southeast Asia. The dhows were spread because of the way it was built and how it was shaped, other regions started to use the idea of the Dhows to build their own boats, for example of Europe followed the design. Trans- Sahara- Sahel= controlled by merchants=gold and slaves.