Multiple choice

Which of the following statements best describes the lives of people living in Arabia’s deserts

  1. Arabs were nomads, sedentary farmers, and merchants.

  2. Arabs were an isolated people with little trade.

  3. Arabs were farmers who planted fields around oases.

  4. Arabs were desert nomads who tended livestock.
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Explanation

The population of pre-Islamic Arabia was diverse, consisting of nomadic Bedouins who herded livestock and sedentary populations who lived in towns or oases and engaged in trade and agriculture.

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