ANTHRO 41A Lecture 5: Anthro 41A Lecture 5
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Enormous economic growth during the middle ages in this region. The eastern coast of africa (swahili coast) becomes extremely wealthy at this time. +great zimbabwe (southern central africa): traded furs, ivory, a lot of gold. +timbuktu: a city on the west coast of africa. =capital of mali and later the ghana empire. During the middle ages africa was successful and thriving; merchant traders were quite wealthy and owned silks and porcelain: arab peninsula. Angkor and java empires: cordoba, spain and palermo, sicily. Largest populations and the biggest economies of any cities in western europe in 1000 ad. These cities were under muslim rule at the time and therefore economically benefitted from the muslims" trade connections with the indian ocean. Pope urban ii campaigned in 1095 to unite his followers in europe and embark on a crusade. +almost 90 years had passed since the holy sepulcher church had burnt down, additionally by this time the church had been rebuilt.
