Explanation:
Islam didn’t prosper in Central Africa because Islam was meant for regions with radical geographical inequalities.
That is, Islam is a desert religion… and Central Africa is a wet tropical region without the geographic inequalities of the desertic lands. Islam simply was not needed there.
So, let’s ellaborate: the main argument of the article is that Islam was born as a desert religion in a region characterized for very wealthy and productive “pockets” of arable land located amidst large regions of un-arable desert (this is, radical geographic inequality). This meant that the inhabitants of the poor lands had little incentive to invest in any kind of capital acumulation and, instead, every incentive to raid and take what the rich pockets produced. The resulting equilibrium meant a state of perpetual unstability and conflict between these two parts of the population.
Islam solved this through an economic doctrine of both static and dynamic redistribution. In essence, the “rich” regions were obligated to pay a religious tax given then to the “poor” regions and capital accumulation was prevented. In the words of the authors:
<span>New problems about the spread of slavery came up because the Missouri compromise</span>
Because it is his or hers job even if you don’t like the person you have to suck it up and do your job.
The essence of open range was the free grazing of cattle on millions of unfenced acres of public land. It was possible to become wealthy raising cattle without owning any acreage. Although most ranchers owned a base operation, some owned millions of acres. America's open range started with the Civil War [1861-1865].
A : The wealthy upper class paid for and provided troops to end the rebellion.
