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n |
Cities
had developed in the trading
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system
linking the Mediterranean to
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East
Asia.
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n |
The
most important, Mecca, in
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western
Arabia, had been founded
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by
the Umayyad clan of the
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Quraysh
tribe.
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n |
This
city was the site of the Ka'ba,
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an
important religious shrine, that,
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during
an obligatory annual truce in
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inter-clan
feuds, attracted pilgrims
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and
visitors.
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