What types of ecological expansion occurred throughout the Islamic Empire? What are concrete examples of changes that came about as a result of this new Islamic regime?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Ecological expansion of the Islamic Empire
1. cultivators developed new crops and introduced them to newenvironments
2. outreach of Islam was a process of discovery and renaissance
a. new foods was gathered, adapted, and relocated in new environments
b. opportunity to exchange useful plants and animals among diverse environments
3. new plants transmitted to the Middle East were exotics
a. rulers encouraged new introductions, employing agronomists to manage their gardens, enhance their collections of medicinal plants, supply their tables, and improve their estates
B. Changes
1. made a summer growing season possible in the Middle East
a. sugarcane, eggplant and safflower
2. developments in native crops enhanced productivity of farming in the Middle East
3. some crops were transmitted onward, beyond the frontiers of the Muslim world
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What will be an ideal response?
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