Rise and Spread of Islam 622-1500: World Events Research Article from World Eras

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Rise and Spread of Islam 622-1500: World Events Research Article from World Eras

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Over the past three thousand years, people speaking the Bantu family of languages have spread out from western Africa and now dominate the cultures of most of sub-Saharan Africa, diffusing their knowledge of iron work and agriculture.

The West African city-state of Benin emerges in what is now Nigeria, becoming renowned for its metalwork. By the late fifteenth century, when Portuguese explorers visit it for the first time, it has become a large, powerful, and prosperous walled city.

The Incan civilization begins to develop in South America.

Struggles between rival religious groups begin to weaken the Toltec state of central Mexico.

Among the Eastern Woodlands peoples in the northwestern part of present-day New York State the introduction of corn sparks the development of the Owasco culture, the foundation of the groups Europeans later call the Five Iroquois Nations: the Mohawks, Senecas, Onondagas...

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