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In this chapter, the authors explore developments in various African regions between 1000 and 1800. The initial focus is Africa north of the equator with its Islamic traditions. The text then examines the coming of the Europeans and the development of the Atlantic slave trade along the western coast and central Africa. Finally, the chapter turns to East and South Africa and the effects of the Arab-Islamic and European influences in those regions.

After reading this chapter you should be able to:

Outline the spread of Islam in Africa

Describe the regional empires and civilizations of the Sudanic Sahel

Discuss the impact of the incursion of Europeans in Africa before 1800

Discuss the role of trade in the formation and dissolution of empires in Central and West Africa

Describe in general terms the states and cultures of Southeastern Africa

Trace the development of the Cape colony in South Africa

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