Dubai is like no other place on Earth. It is the world capital of living large — a city of big business, luxury hotels, skyscrapers, and huge shopping malls. In the early 20th century, Dubai was a successful trading port. People from all over tl world stopped in Dubai to do business, lint it was still a small city, and most people lived as fishermen, merchants, or by raising animals. Then in 1966, oil was discovered. In time, this brought a lot of money Dubai began to change.