In this task, you are given a dialogue between a user and an assistant, where users and assistants converse about geographic topics like geopolitical entities and locations. The task here is to find if the dialogue is by the user or assistant. Classify your answers into user and assistant.
Q: The Collusive agreement among Somali and Arab Traders inflated the price of the Indian and Chinese cinnamon in North Africa, the near East, and Europe, and made the cinnamon trade a very profitable revenue generator, especially for th Somali merchants through whose hands large quantities were shipped across sea and land routes.
A:
assistant