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The southwestern corner of the peninsula experienced more rainfall in ancient times and was thus much greener than the rest of the peninsula, enjoying more productive fields. The high peaks and slopes are capable of supporting significant vegetation and river beds called
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has the meanings of both "fecund, fertile" and "happy, fortunate, blessed", this area being the best irrigated of the Arabian peninsula. Arabia Felix, referring to Yemen, was one of the three regions into which the
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New developments in trade during the 1st century AD led to traders avoiding the middlemen of Eudaemon and making the dangerous direct crossing of the
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says that Arabia Felix was composed of five kingdoms, one each of warriors, farmers, "those who engage in the mechanical arts; another, the
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Part of what led to Arabia Felix's wealth and importance to the ancient world was its near monopoly of the trade in
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Eratosthenes’ Geography. Fragments Collected and Translated, with Commentary and Additional Material
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Political Leaders of the Contemporary Middle East and North Africa: A Biographical Dictionary
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Undying Curiosity: Carsten Niebuhr and the Royal Danish Expedition to Arabia (1761-1767)
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and those of Egypt did not dare sail to places further on, but came only this far.
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A 1787 French map of Arabie Heureuse by Clouet, J. B. L. (Jean-Baptiste Louis).
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Graf, D.; R. Talbert; S. Gillies; T. Elliott; J. Becker (15 December 2020).
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Undying Curiosity: Carsten Niebuhr and the Royal Danish Expedition to Arabia
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Cassius Dio; Cary, Earnest (tr.); Foster, Herbert B. (tr.) (1917).
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Eudaemon Arabia was once a full-fledged city, when vessels from
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and spices, both its native products and imports from
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1596 map of the Middle East and the Indian Ocean by
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Index

Eudaemon
Nelson DeCastro

Jan Huyghen van Linschoten
Ancient Greek
Latin
South Arabia
Yemen
Hellenistic
Greek
romanized
Eratosthenes of Cyrene
Romans
Arabia Deserta
Arabia Petraea

wadis
cinnamon
India
Horn of Africa
Strabo
myrrh
frankincense
cassia
nard
Aden
transshipping
Red Sea
Periplus of the Erythraean Sea
periplus

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