The Nabatean is a Semitic culture that inhabited parts of Jordan, Canaan and Arabs from around the sixth century BC. They are most widely known as the builder of the city of Petra, which became the center of their city.
Petra is an impressive city carved from the cliff side with the crown jewel of the Khazneh, or treasure, a building massive Greek-inspired buildings.
Wealth Nabatean 'obtained by a complex network of trade centers, where they trade in ivory, silk, spices, precious metals, gems, incense, sugar perfumes and medicines.
Because of the extensive trade routes, Nabatean culture heavily influenced by Hellenistic Greece, Rome, Arabia and Assyria. Unlike other people of their time, there was no slavery in the Nabatean and every member of society contributes to the work tasks.
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