WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -South Arabian merchants utilized the Incense Route to transport not only frankincense and myrrh but also spices, gold, ivory, pearls, precious stones, and textiles-all of which arrived at the local ports from Africa, India, and the Far East.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Arabs were originally the people of the Arabian desert. Converted to Islam in the 7th century A.D., they conquered the Middle East from the Sassanian and Byzantine empires and established a succession of Arab-Islamic Middle Eastern empires from Spain to Central Asia and from the Caucasus to India.

Detailed explanation-3: -Arabs are first mentioned in Biblical and Assyrian texts of the ninth to fifth centuries BC where they appear inhabiting parts of present-day Syria, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq. Several Arab tribes and towns are identified during the Neo-Assyrian period through their onomastics and toponyms.

Detailed explanation-4: -These interactions resulted in further expansion of Islam to the people living in important coastal cities in the Indian Subcontinent, China, or in the more distant South-eastern islands of modern Indonesia or Philippines.