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After observing this intricate piece of media, I believe that I can properly answer the three driving questions. However, before I answer them, I would first like to analyze this dense piece of media and try to decipher the important parts. In the prologue of sorts, the narrator talked about his personal experience with Islam which did not drive my research, but it give me an idea of an everyday life in Islam. Has he went on he gave us a brief idea of how Islam spread from a small colony in arabia, it spread to the steppes of Iraq and the deserts of Africa. It soon became a world power by the 9th century. As they advanced they wanted to become enlightened, they longed for an architectural wonder greater than that of the Romans thus they birthed modern day geometry. …show more content…
So they adopted the new Indian way of doing math using numbers from 1234567890. This made doing long division and multiplication easier. However, it was still impossible to do advanced geometry because the decimal point did not exist so they created it. They also invented modern day algebra. After these major advancements it was still hard to get a good education so the Sultan made a royal decree to make Arabian the state language. Soon after the arabic language became the “Education language” it was also considered by Islam has the language of god. From the 12th to 17th century Islam entered the “Translation era” it was a period of time were the royal crown would pay you to translate all foreign intellectual texts to Arabic. Making Islam the center of the intellectual world. After their efforts they started to create intricate patterns using

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