This trade system was known as <span>Mercantilism. This was a good way for Western countries to find a market for their finished products and to get cheap labor in the form of slaves that were bought from Africa.</span>
During the expansion of the Islamic caliphate, the Muslim
rule was often preferred to the Persian or the byzantine because of the main
reason that the caliphate extracts few taxes from its conquered populations
than the empire that it resides.
