Maritime Trade of the Ancient Arabs; From the Rise of the First Arab Kingdoms to the First Abyssinian Invasion of Yemen (1300 B.C – AD 340)

Abstract

Ancient Arabians excelled in terrestrial caravan’s trade. They were important mediators in the commerce between the ancient west world and the ancient east world. On the other hand, the ancient Arabians practiced Trade Sea the ancient east and west by the world, but it was not as intensive as their terrestrial trade, despite the reason that the Arabs of Sheeba and the Nabataens had had a powerful fleet by which they could vie with the Egyptians Ptolemies during the third and second centuries B.C. After their came out the Himyar with a strong commercial fleet, in the first and second centuries A.D, rivaling the Romans after having invaded Egypt and thus, extended their power in the Red Sea to consolidate their way to India. However that may be I consider my present article is a written image meant to cast more light on the sea activities of ancient Arabians in the Red Sea and the Indians ocean from the emergence of the kingdom of Maïn in Yemen (1300 B.C) to its first invasion by the Abyssenians in 340 A.D.