With a promise of change to an electorate clearly discontented with president bush
As I recall it was rolled-steel girders riveted together, probably from shipbuilding, together with steam-powered winches and an abundance of cheap steel. As opposed to European cathedrals erected with animal-powered winches and with more expensive forged iron bracing (one of the big cathedrals has a kind or iron corset to keep the walls from bursting outwards).
<span> by the time he was born city was prosperous </span>
<span>- Makkah didn't have agriculture- merchants traded instead </span>
<span>- merchants got a lot of money from trading in general but especially from Yemen </span>
<span>- was a religious center </span>
- merchants came to Makkah because it was conventionally located
<span>-was a desert </span>
<span>-was a center of trade/ was a trading city</span>
