High Middle Ages · Middle East · Culture
1010
Fatimid Cairo at its commercial zenith
1010
Under the Fatimid caliphate, Cairo had become the largest city in the Islamic world, its markets thronging with merchants from India, Byzantium, and sub-Saharan Africa. The Red Sea trade brought spices, gems, and Chinese porcelain to warehouses along the Nile. Al-Fustat's pottery workshops fired lusterware that rivaled anything produced in Baghdad or Samarkand.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.