So you have three main trade routes that cross the country, and they were used by trading caravans that would carry gold and grain and spices and textiles and other goods between Egypt and the rest of the Fertile Crescent and up into Asia Minor.

你有三条主要道路穿过这个国家，他们被通商的车队所使用,驮着金子，谷物，香料，纺织品和其他货物,在埃及与其他肥沃的伊斯兰教国家间,向上到达小亚细亚。

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Already by 1825--that early the South was the world's largest supplier of cotton and fueling now this Industrial Revolution in textile production in Great Britain and other places.

截至1825年,南方是全世界,最大的棉花供应者并且促进着,在英国和其他国家的,纺织工业的发展

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