1. Muslim Cities of the Post-Classical Age
... and Ismaili spy Nasier Khusraw's (Doc #3) report on Cairo depicts a vivid prosperous image of the Muslim city of Cairo as an active trading 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 manufac...
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