... 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 the inhabitants of Tabriz, in general, were poor, and that's where his ... . Also, Arab scholar Al-Tabiri's (Doc #6) records of the story of Abbasid Caliph Al-Mansur changing the capital for a safer one reflects that...

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... 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 in order to confirm the dissolution of Hussein's regime and the creation of ... Al-Qaeda's terro...

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