Craig is traveling in a foreign country and needs to use the bathroom. he locates the men’s restroom by recognizing the familiar symbol and enters. craig is surprised to see that he has actually entered the women’s restroom by mistake. how is this possible?

A symbol's meaning can be culture dependent                  

Explanation:

Craig travelling to a foreign country is deceived by the symbols in that country. Symbols can signify different meanings in different countries. Different countries have different cultures and traditions.

These symbols or icons symbolizes different things and helps to identify different items. These symbols are called pictograms.

A symbol's meaning can be different in different countries and can be culture dependent. It depends on the particular country to represent a particular thing with a different pictogram.

Thus Craig made a mistake by entering into a wrong restroom by seeing the symbol is because ---

"A symbol's meaning can be culture dependent".

muslims have taken his goods and products to different parts of asia an indonesia. sometimes just traveled and trade, but in other occasions, stayed in the place and made a living.

trade was the key for muslims economies to prosper. their commerce routes reached far places like malaysia and java in the 11th century.

another important factor for prosperity was that muslim states served as the middle point for european traders.

they used to travel by land but sailing the seas -the indian ocean- really increase the exportation of products.