Trade and Commerce flourished in the Abbasid Empire. Debal, near the modern town of Banbhore in Sindh Province of Pakistan, was ideally located for Arab trade with South Asia as well as the Far East. Debal also served as a transit trading post, where goods from the Far East as well as from West Asia were stored in the warehouses and transshipped to their ultimate destinations.

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How medieval trade routes helped shape the world.