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Arabia

Arabia . Pre-Islamic Arabia. Bedouin (nomadic cultures) Tribes protect the trade routes Mecca & Medina were key trade cities Mecca founded by Umayyad Clan of Quraysh Bedouin tribe Clan controls it politically & economically Women might have had higher status

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Arabia

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  1. Arabia

  2. Pre-Islamic Arabia • Bedouin (nomadic cultures) • Tribes protect the trade routes • Mecca & Medina were key trade cities • Mecca founded by Umayyad Clan of Quraysh Bedouin tribe • Clan controls it politically & economically • Women might have had higher status • Culturally: Only their poetry is worth discussing

  3. Expansion of Long-Distance Trade • Depended on environmental knowledge and technological adaptations • Cites, (like Mecca & Medina) were formed on Oasis • Well & Springs made sedentary agriculture possible • The Arabs & Berbers adapted camels to travel across & around the Sahara Desert

  4. Why camels are great? • long periods without water (4-5 days) • carry very heavy loads • produce milk, wool, and meat • used to plow • Poo: fertilizer & make fire Real Name: dromedaries

  5. First Evidence of Domestication • Not hard to do • Dates back to the late third millennium BCE • First in the Arabian peninsula • Seems to have been connected to the exploitation of distant copper mines. • 10th or 9th century BCE becomes a really popular animal in the Near East

  6. What kind of camel technology did they have? • First stirrup-like object was invented in India in 2nd century BC • Nomadic tribes in northern China are thought to have been the inventors of the modern stirrup by AD 302. • Gave great support for the rider, and was essential in later warfare.

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