So it becomes crucial to know what happened in the past to understand what is happening today. The earliest known human existence in the UAE dated from 5500 BCE, Neolithic Period. At that early stage, there was a proof of interaction with the outside world, particularly with Northern Persia. The contact with the outside world increased persistently due to Copper Trade. Foreign trade has been the defining factor for the United Arab Emirates since the beginning. From domestication of the camel towards the end of the Second Millennium BCE to overland caravan traffic between Syria and cities in the Northern Iraq by the first century CE to the waterways travel to Umm al-Qaiwain (then known as Omana) and then to India.

The UAE was formed by the group of tribally organised Arabian Peninsula Sheikhdoms. It is situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest Asia on the Persian Gulf bordering Saudi Arabia and Oman. During the 16th century, few parts of the UAE came under the rule of the Ottoman Empire and then the place was known to the British as the ‘Pirate Coast’. As the name suggests the raiders based there used to harass the shipping industry despite the patrolling of the European and Arab navies.  The UAE covers the area of 30,000 sq miles. Its history makes the place more alluring.

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