... city, with all the services like caravansaries for caravan traders and the two thousand ships belonged to the Sultan, shows that Muslim cities at that time period were on the trade routes and were important in keeping trades going. Italian merchant Marco Polo's (Doc #5) picture of another prosperous city on the trade route, Tabriz, focuses more on the trading activities happening in the city, and ... from his perspective, commerce and manufactures made the merchants who probably came from all over the inside and outside of Muslim world ... in the city wealthy. But he also mentions that...

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... in order to keep peace to ensure the reconstruction of an Iraq shattered by decades of war and embargo while Saddam Hussein's Regime was still on the power. By the time, many US citizens expect to see the results of the campaign in Iraq, and have the 130,000 US troops back home. Although the objective of OIF was accomplished by the Coalition when this gained control of Baghdad ... , the major objective of the war is still not achieved. For this reason, the military presence of the US, and the rest of the Coalition is critical ... to prevent such an event from happening again. If Al-Qaed...

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