By Henryk Kierzkowski
ISBN-10: 0333998391
ISBN-13: 9780333998397
ISBN-10: 1403937672
ISBN-13: 9781403937674
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The main reason for these fluctuating movements is the following: within-country inequality has increased monotonically over the last 30 years. On the other hand, after growing during the 1970s, across-country inequality experienced a sharp decline during the 1980s, a decline that slowed during the 1990s. The decline experienced during the 1980s was so sharp that it more than offset the increase in within-country inequality. Thus, overall inequality declined during that decade. Things were a bit different during the 1990s because, although across-country inequality kept falling, it did so at a much slower rate.
One is led to ask whether the communications between the Frankish empire and the North became more lively in consequence of reduced communications between the West and the Orient, or whether the same factors were responsible for the prosperity of trade both in the Caliphate and around the North Sea. Bolin argues strongly in favour of the second of the two possibilities mentioned above – that the prosperity of the Carolingian Empire on its northern 36 Europe and Globalization frontiers was a consequence of the prosperity of the Arab world, even if only indirectly through the mediation of the Swedes in Russia.
New varieties of known plants were also developed in royal botanical gardens. Irrigation works were built and extended. The resulting higher agricultural productivity supported an extensive urban population in a string of major cities from Damascus and Baghdad to Cairo, Kairouan and Cordoba. Luxury manufactures of all kinds were produced in these cities such as silks, brocades, leather and metal products and many others. Non-Muslim peoples, including Jewish traders and craftsmen, were free to pursue their livelihood and practise their religion on payment of taxes that were not onerously high.
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