The economic history of the Arab world expresses the history of commercial activities in the Arab-speaking countries of the Arab world, which extend from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Arabian Sea in the east, and from the Mediterranean in the north to the Horn of Africa and the Indian Ocean in the southeast, which started from the Arabian Peninsula in the seventh century AD and spread with the Islamic conquests. [The Nile and the Fertile Crescent. Agriculture dominated the economy until the modern era, as did herding livestock, which played an important role in the Arab world. As well as the distinguished geographical location of the Arab countries, which helped to control the trade routes, thus controlling the trade of silk, spices, gold, salt, and luxury goods, including ivory and African feathers south of the Sahara Desert, as well as with the slave trade, which was one of the most famous trade routes in the past.
