What were the Arabian merchants role ?

Question

What were the Arabian merchants role ?

Answer 1

To make MONEY and it still is.

Answer 2

They developed trade routes over land (camel caravans) and sea to distant lands which therefore became linked to the Mediterranean and Europe.

They brought Chinese and Indian ideas including paper, paper money, chess, the compass and sextant, gunpowder, algebra, the system of counting in tens and using zero, perspective in art, architecture, spices and much more to Europe from the East.

Some of these things had been known by the Greeks and Romans but lost during the Dark Ages. When the Arabs re-introduced them to Europe via the Venetians, Byzantines and others we had the Renaissance.

They also linked black Africa with the Mediterranean and Middle East by routes across the Sahara, and brought ivory, gold and slaves to the Middle East and Europe from East Africa.