What role did trade play in the development of culture in north Africa?
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The majority of North Africa is Sunni Muslim. During the Arabian trade with Europe after the fall of Constantinople, Egypt and North Africa became an integral passageway for these Arabian trade ships to trade with central and Western Europe. Now the multiple Caliphates that dominated North Africa during the times of the Ottomans established a Muslim cultural influence in the region.
Now of course, we see that the West liked to trade with North Africa for some time, but the Crusades left these Caliphates at a sort of isolation from the West, as they were a growing aversion to Roman Catholic European rule and hence from this isolation, stemmed the proliferation, or rather, stabilization of the rule of islam in north African society up to today. But this is a very broad and limited analysis of the culture.
