Social Sciences and History / Unit 6 SSH 0510 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Swahili Coast and Kilwa
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The idea
East African city-states rode the wind patterns into Indian Ocean trade, united by Islam and the Swahili language, selling interior goods and enslaved Africans for goods from India and China. Kilwa, richest through Sofala's gold, led them.
In practice
Dhows of sewn coconut planks under lateen sails.
Where people slip
A Somali-Ottoman alliance and Oman drove Portugal from all but Mozambique.
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