The Coastal Plains:
Dry river beds cut through the coastal plains & oftenly fill with water.  These areas are suitable for farming.  In the sixth century most of these  people were larmers on the coastal plain.  Growing, grians, fruits & vegeatbles.


 Traders also existed on the coastal plain.  Sending goods by caravan to towns like Makkah or seaports. 

 People on the coastal plain traded with merchants of places such as; India, East Africa, lands along the Red Sea & Persian Gulf. 

 Arabian Peninsulas:
Lying on the cross roads of Asia, Africa, & Europe.  Great civilizations grew up in this divine area.  Great deals of trade went through this area.  Carried silk from China, along with jewels, cotton, & spices from India. 

Sumerians built complex civilaizations along the valleys of the Tigris & Euphrates rivers in present day Iraq.  In the west, Egyptions built their societies on the banks of the Nile.  Later, Greeks, Romans, &Persian largly impacted the Middle East.