Place · sea
Persian Gulf
The Persian Gulf is an arm of the Indian Ocean between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula, connected to the Arabian Sea by the Strait of Hormuz. Since antiquity it has carried trade between Mesopotamia, India and East Africa. It was vital to the commerce of empires from the Akkadian and Babylonian to the Sasanian, Abbasid and Safavid, and the Afsharid and Zand rulers sought to control its ports.
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Abbasid CaliphateSocioeconomyAdal SultanateSocioeconomyAfsharid EmpireSocioeconomy, Military, ImpactAkkadian EmpireFoundation, SocioeconomyBabylonian EmpireSocioeconomyChaldean EmpireSocioeconomyNeo-Sumerian EmpireSocioeconomyOttoman EmpireGovernanceSafavid EmpireSocioeconomySasanian EmpireSocioeconomySeleucid EmpireSocioeconomySong DynastySocioeconomy, ImpactSrivijaya EmpireSocioeconomyZand EmpireSocioeconomy, ImpactUrukMilitaryBuyid dynastySocioeconomySheikhdom of SharjahFoundationLater Pandyan EmpireSocioeconomy, Impact, SummaryBengal SultanateSocioeconomySultanate of ZanzibarSocioeconomySumerianLegacy
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