Islam was flourishing. They were expanding their Muslim culture into Africa. This was and is very important to African culture and their way of life. The Islamic people brought in writing and other bases for a civilixation. Islam was also brought into India where the Hindus already occupied. Hindus let them in, and some people swithced from Hinduism to Muslim culture and vice versa. The Arabs were also going into the Western world. The crusades and the attack on Constantinople are two of many big events between the West and Islamic heartlands. 

Analysis
    People
     
Abbasid
        Umayyad
        Nigeria
        Swahili
        Songhay
        Forest and Plains
    Comparisons
        Kongo, Mwene Mutapa, and Zambezi
    Document
        A thousand and One Nights
        The Great Oral Tradition and Epic of Sundiata
    Conflict
       Sunni-Shi'a Split
    Change
        Position of Women
        Islam to Africa
        Islam to India
        Islam to SE Asia
    Picture   
        AP Themes    
Essays
       Abdallah Bin Battuta
       Sundiata
       Mansa Mussa
       Nubia and Ethiopia
       Umayyads to Abassids
       Fall of Umayyad
       Christian Crusades
       Arab Attack on Constantinople
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