Low prices of products that were on sale at the time earned
more revenues for merchants and led to improvement in imports as well as increase
the influence of traders to an international level helped in increasing trade
in the Muslim Empire. The establishment
of trade routes along the southern Mediterranean coast connecting countries
like Spain and Morocco to Egypt and Syria also helped in expanding trade for
the Empire. Other factors were the development
of sea trade and the use of donkeys and camels
for travel through complex routes devised by merchants and traders.