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Standard 7.2.5
• Describe the growth of cities and the establishment of trade routes among Asia, Africa, and Europe, the products and inventions that traveled along these routes (e.g., spices, textiles, paper, steel, new crops), and the role of merchants in Arab society.
Background Knowledge
• The first and second waves of Muslim expansion founded military outposts across their territory. – Many of these outposts stood along trade
routes. Eventually, they grew into towns and cities.
• In this section, you will learn about the growth of cities and trade in the Islamic world.
• textiles – woven goods such as cotton cloth or wool
• social mobility – the ability to rise in society