In 1600s the planter class increasingly relied on African slaves for labor majorly because slaves were offering cheap labor now that the planters didn't have to pay for this form of labor. This led to most of them foregoing traditional indentured servants who would be paid for their labor and instead opted for African slaves.
<span>Physician and pioneering activist </span>
Islam did not forbid contact with other cultures. If they had done so, this would have discouraged a flow of information and science.
I should know I live in Riyadh and I am a Muslim :)
Information: science is an interdisciplinary science primarily concerned with the collection, classification, manipulation, storage, retrieval and dissemination of information.