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in the north; Arabia Deserta, the vast interior desert; and Arabia Felix in the southwest.
Thanks to the monsoon rains, Arabia Felix, corresponding to modern day Yemen, was
much greener and more agriculturally productive than the northern and interior regions
of the peninsula.
Figure 10.10 “Spring Landscape,” miniature painting from the thirteenth- century Carmina
Burana Codex.
Source: Wikimedia Commons.