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Registration Date: 25-09-2017 12:08:25 |
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Mark Tours
It is thought that the word `Oman’ is derived from the verb meaning to occupy or settle. The earliest traces of human settlements in the area appear to be from the fourth millennium B.C. The burial mounds or the beehive tombs that are found around Ibri and on the Jebel Bani Jabir plateau provide the only links to this early civilization. Not much else is known about the early settlements in Oman. What is agreed upon by most historians is the fact that Oman had a long and enviable trading history. Mesopotamian records describe trade with ships from Magan and Dilum. Magan, believed to be present day Sohar, was once the centre of copper trade. Trading accounts from the Indus Valley civilization, the Sumerian and Assyrian civilizations all mention the seafaring port of Magan and attribute their economic success to trade with Magan. These early trading accounts particularly highlight two products that contributed to the growth of trade with Oman; Frankincense and Copper. The Frankincense tree also called olibanum produces an aromatic sap, Frankincense, used in perfumes and in incense. Southern Oman, present day region of Dhofar, was the centre of the Frankincense trade. Found in very few places around the world, the Frankincense tree grew best in the Dhofar region of Oman. This uniqueness made Omani Frankincense a highly prized commodity and was mostly traded against high value commodities like spices. Trading in Frankincense grew to such an extent in Oman that whole economies of new cities subsisted entirely on the trade of this aromatic sap. The prosperity of the lost city of Ubar, was believed to be based on the frankincense trade. Copper assumed importance in the later pre – Islamic times and played a large part in Oman’s economic prosperity since then. Islam spread across Oman with the acceptance of Islam as their religion by the then ruling Azdi tribe, in the early 7th century. The ruling Azdi tribes till then were pagan worshippers. With the conversion of the Azdi tribe, Islam soon spread throughout the entire country thus aligning Oman with the larger Arabian Peninsula in its culture and way of life.
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