In what ways were women in the
arab empire better off than
women elsewhere at the time?

answer: islam came to the southeast asia, first by the way of muslim traders along the main trade-route between asia and the far east, then was further spread by sufi orders and finally consolidated by the expansion of the territories of converted rulers and their communities.

the answer to fill in the blank in this question would be the word resource, it is defined as the money, material or people (since human resource is a very valuable good) that a company or a person has at disposition (meaning they can use the resource as they see fit), to be able to complete a task or achieve a goal.