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Many Arabs engaged in merchantry and as spices were very desirable in Europe, the Arabs staked a position as middle-men trafficking the spices from India to the Mediterranean. The Hindu numbers made the tallying of contents significantly easier than the Roman system of counting and so the Arabs copied it.

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