The description of the Romans involvement with the Nabatean empire implies that Petra's strategic location led the Romans to use it as a trade center.
This was an empire that was well known for its trade skills they were known to have traded such items as spices, sugar, perfumes and ivory.
They were taken over by the Romans in the year 106. The empire changed after it was taken over peacefully by the Romans.
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