Explain the results of the establishment of Omani rule on the East African coast from the 17th C.
Answer:
-Established an effective political control on the East African coast which brought political stability commercial prosperity.
- Ruling families began to administer the coastal city states e.g The Busaidi and Mazrui families.
- Stimulated growth of local trade by financing, caravans traders into, the interior of East Africa in search for trade items e.g. Ivory, Staves.
- Led to increased slavery slave trade out of a need for slaves to work on the
plantation farms at the coast.
- Promoted the growth of plantation agriculture in cloves, simsim, coconuts etc. - Turned Zanzibar and Pemba in to world's leading producers of cloves making them account for the total world clove production.
- Promoted international trade by expanding existing market opening new one in the far East and Asia.
- Signed trade treaties with European countries who established trading consulate the East African coast.
- Led to growth of towns on the coast and interior of East Africa.
- Activities of Omani Arabs attracted European interest
on the East African coast which later led to colonization of East African countries
- Helped in abolition of slave trade by signing anti-slave trade treaties with British representatives between 1856-1873.
- Led to the rise of a class of wealthy traders and landlords.
-The activities led to spread of Islam into the interior and along the trade routes by the Arabs and Swahili traders.
- Arabic culture was spread in the interior of East Africa by Arab Swahili traders as they traded with the East Africans.
- Led to increased settlement of Arabs at the coast for
purpose of trade and farming.
- Ruling families began to administer the coastal city states e.g The Busaidi and Mazrui families.
- Stimulated growth of local trade by financing, caravans traders into, the interior of East Africa in search for trade items e.g. Ivory, Staves.
- Led to increased slavery slave trade out of a need for slaves to work on the
plantation farms at the coast.
- Promoted the growth of plantation agriculture in cloves, simsim, coconuts etc. - Turned Zanzibar and Pemba in to world's leading producers of cloves making them account for the total world clove production.
- Promoted international trade by expanding existing market opening new one in the far East and Asia.
- Signed trade treaties with European countries who established trading consulate the East African coast.
- Led to growth of towns on the coast and interior of East Africa.
- Activities of Omani Arabs attracted European interest
on the East African coast which later led to colonization of East African countries
- Helped in abolition of slave trade by signing anti-slave trade treaties with British representatives between 1856-1873.
- Led to the rise of a class of wealthy traders and landlords.
-The activities led to spread of Islam into the interior and along the trade routes by the Arabs and Swahili traders.
- Arabic culture was spread in the interior of East Africa by Arab Swahili traders as they traded with the East Africans.
- Led to increased settlement of Arabs at the coast for
purpose of trade and farming.
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