SOCIAL AND ECONOMICS

INTERNATIONAL TRADE NETWORK

• Merchants were honored.
• They were a religious symbol to the people.
• United diverse cultures.
• They had about 750 to 1350 merchants create the network.

MANUFACTURED GOODS

• They're organized by guilds.
• Manufactured goods are highly valued.
• Most goods came from other places.
• Most labor was done by paid workers.
• Manufactured goods were dependent on its quality.

AGRICULTURE THRIVES

• Mainly outside the cities.
• Both Umayyad and Abbasid wanted to preserve and spread the growth.
• Massive irrigation projects.
• They grew Cotton, Medicinal Herbs, Sugar Cane, and flowers for foreign markets.

SOCIAL STRUCTURE

• They had slaves, and paid workers.
• They had Social Mobility, the ability to move up in class.
• A child born from a slave mother is considered Freeborn.
• To break down the tribal system, they created a class of Turkish-Slave soldiers.

THE IMPACT!

• Yes, Muslims developed the international trade network, and we still use it today.
• We still trade with foreign countries by importing and exporting goods.
• We still use a similar agricultural system to this day.