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18 Cards in this Set
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what was the leading city in the Abbasid Dynasty becoming the intellectual center |
Baghdad |
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Who founded the House of Wisdom |
Ma'mun |
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What did the House of Wisdom specialize in? |
Translations from Greek, Persian, and Arab |
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What two math achievements did the Abbasid dynasty obtain? |
place-value; algebra |
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This is used to determine the position of stars, movement of planets, and the time |
astrolabe |
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What two things does the astrolabe help Muslims to do everyday? |
know where mecca is; the beginning of Ramadan |
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What about the earth did the Muslims figure out? |
It was round |
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What area did the Muslims map out? |
northern hemisphere |
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What did alchemy set the ground for? |
chemistry |
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classified animals, minerals, and vegetables; made a medical encyclopedia about small pox and measles |
al-razi |
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produced the Canon of Medicine |
Ibn Sina |
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founded the science of optics |
Ibn al-Haytham |
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elegant handwriting |
calligraphy |
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geometric designs entwined with plants |
arabesques |
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animal fables that promoted moral lessons |
Kalila and Dimna |
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wrote the Rubaiyat |
Omar Khayyam |
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recognized after his death as one of the world's greatest philosophers, he wrote the "Guide of the Perplexed" and Mishne Torah. |
Moses Maimonides |
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believed human affairs were shaped by geography , climate, economics, and moral choices |
Ibn Khaldun |
