The middle east is best associated with which internationally traded product?

The Middle East is best associated with Oil.

From ancient times, oil appeared naturally in certain regions of the Middle East. 6000 years ago in Assyria and Babylon it was used to stick bricks and stones, in medicine and in the caulking of boats; in Egypt, to oil skins.

The first oil distillation is attributed to the Arab sage of Persian origin Al-Razi in the ninth century, inventor of the alembic, with which he obtained kerosene and other distillates, for medical and military purposes.

Today, strategic oil reserves, especially in Saudi Arabia and Iran, are among the largest in the world and OPEC is dominated by Middle Eastern countries.

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japan participated in world war i from 1914 to 1918 in an alliance with entente powers and played an important role in securing the sea lanes in the west pacific and indian oceans against the imperial german navy as the member of the allies.

alliances in ww1 were different from ww2 because the entente in ww1 made up of serbia,russia,france,britan,japan and italy later america  and all allied in a sort of balance of power and too keep germany,austria-hungary,and the ottomans down. russia allied the serbians in order to exert its influence in the balkans while france allied the russians because france was still in dismay and insulted after the defeat to the germans during the unification of germany and britian allied the belgians after the germans invasion of belgium.in ww2 the alliances were in a preemptive attempt to deter any further wars into happening while germany and italy allied since they were insulted and humiliated after the previous war while also sharing a similar ideology of facsim along with japan which all 3 had a want for world domination and agreed to assist one another in the endevours 

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