Some Features of the Commercial Activity and Political Systems of the Arabs of Southern Arabia at the Beginning of the Codification Era

Abstract

This research is aiming to highlights some features of the commercial activity and political systems of the Arabs of the south of the Arabian Peninsula at the beginning of the codification era. It shows that the emergence of an Arab civilization in the southwestern corner of the continent of Asia lasted thousands of years and was woven at the junction of the second and first millennium BC until the middle of the first millennium AD. Commercially, the civilization of southern Arabia was distinguished from other civilizations of the ancient world by two main features: it is dominated for more than a thousand years the trade of incense and spices, and the second is that the Arab countries followed in their system of rule the method of the electoral cycle of rulers, which is much like the regimes of some countries of the civilized world today.