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trading network, prominently including the spice trade, linking Eurasia, Africa Europe, the Middle East, India and even from as far away as China. In turn, the Yemeni were skilled sailors, travelling up the Red Sea to Egypt and across the Indian Ocean to India and down the east African coast. Inland, the valleys of Yemen had been cultivated by a system of irrigation that had been set back when the Marib Dam was destroyed by an earthquake in

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