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country. Was increasing merchants' role in the social life of the city? In their hands were
concentrated all external and internal trades of the city and country. Baku was the
important port of the Caspian Sea through which were exported transit sea ways mainly
Shemakha silk and other handicraft goods to Europe, Russia and other countries. Feudal
flourishing of Baku lasted till the end of XVII c, after what was marking the decadence
of city life and trade which took place not only in Azerbaijan but also in all countries of
the Middle East.
The decadence of the city life in Baku lasting during the first half of XVIII c.
was explained not only with displacing the trade ways, feudal intestine wars and
ruinous of the country but also with the reduction of exporting oil in the connection with
the spreading of fırearms in the East and there was no need for using oil in military
techniques. In the second half of XVIII c. is observed several reviving of city life and
the trade in Baku. After the conquest of Baku Khanate by czaris m in 1806, ceasing the
external and internal wars and a number of other factors appeared precon -ditions
promoting the growth of productive forces, development of capi-talist relations and the
great raising of oil industry in the country.
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