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The first human settlement in the history of Dubai
was in approximately 3000 BCE, when the area
was inhabited by nomadic cattle herders. In the
3rd century CE, the area came under the control of
the Sassanid Empire which lasted until the 7th
century, when the Umayyad Caliphate took control
and introduced lslam in the area. The area
sustained by fishing and pearl diving for a
thousand years, with the first records of the town
being made in 1799 when the Bani Yas clan
established it as a dependency of Abu Dhabi.
Dubai became a separate Sheikhdom in 1833,
when the Al-Maktoum dynasty of the Bani Yas
clan (initially from Abu Dhabi) took it over
peacefully. The invention of artificial pearls in
1926 and the Great Depression in 1929 caused a
collapse in the international pearl market, which
resulted in the emir Sheikh Saeed looking for an
alternative source of income and inviting lndian
and Iranian traders to settle there without paying
any tax and Dubai becoming one of the leading
re-export ports in the world. In 1966, oil was
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