Name: __________________________________ Class: A B C F G
Name: __________________________________ Class: A B C F G
Contributions of Muslims to World Civilization
Baghdad
1. What are two different “nick names” given to the capital Baghdad?
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2. Who moved the capital to Baghdad? ________________________.
3. How many workers did it take to build Baghdad, and how long? __________________________________________________________________.
4. Describe the set up of the city ______________________________________________
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Mosque
1. Give the name of the tower where the muezzin chanted the call to prayer _______________________________.
2. What stood in the walled courtyard and what was it used for? _____________________________________________________________________
3. What is the job of the imam ? ____________________________________________
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4. Are all mosques designed the same? Explain. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Scholarship and Learning
5. Write down Muhammad’s quote ____________________________________________________________________
6. In the beginning of the 8th century what important role did the Arabic language play?
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7. Muslim rulers built schools, colleges, and libraries below list the important buildings built in each city and give specific info on these important buildings:
Baghdad _____________________________________________________________
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Cairo ________________________________________________________________
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Cordoba _____________________________________________________________
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8. What issue did Al-Kindi an Arab philosopher of the 9th century try to solve? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
9. Describe Al-Kindi’s two sources of knowledge: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
10. Give the name of Islam’s most famous philosopher _________________________.
11. What was his logical proof? _________________________________.
12. Define immortal __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Advances in Science and Technology
13. What is Zoology? _____________________________________________________
14. In what ways do you think science and technology changed how animals are cared for? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
15. Who is al-Jahiz and what is he known for? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
16. Below circle a legacy or “establishment” from the Muslim empire.
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17. What was the important use for astrolabes __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
18. List the different important technological advances Muslims made and why these advances were important. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
19. Define astronomy __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
20. Define Evolution __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Geography and Navagation
21. What did the Muslims discover about the earth? _____________________________________________________________________
22. Muslims were able to calculate what about the earth? Were they accurate? _____________________________________________________________________
23. What did the work The Book of Roads and Provinces, contain? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
24. What did the work The Book of Countries, contain? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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25. Define circumference __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mathematics
26. What important things for mathematics did scholars do in Baghdad’s House of Wisdom? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
27. Who is Al-Khwarizmi and what important things did he do? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
28. Describe the importance of the Arabic numeral. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
29. What important concept did Muslims help spread and where did this concept originate from? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Medicine
30. Muslim doctors contributed to the field of medicine by establishing this and the FIRST OF ITS KIND!!! _________________________________________________________
31. How did people pay for their medical expenses? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
32. Hospitals were in every city caravans brought people to these hospitals, caravans can be thought of as a modern form of which one of these pictures?
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33. How were hospitals divided up? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
34. What important roll did Pharmacists play? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
35. What was al-Razi important discovery? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
36. What important thing did Ibn Sina do? What sort of impact did this work have? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
37. Define pharmacist- __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
38. What did surgeons use to stitch up wounds? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Bookmaking and Literature
39. Give the name of a famous collection of stories __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
40. What is Sufism or Islamic mysticism? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
41. Who is Rumi and what did he do that was important? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Art and Music
42. What makes Islamic art unique? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
43. Define arabesque __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
44. Define Calligraphy __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
45. Why is calligraphy important? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
46. Where was calligraphy used? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
47. What important things could clothes represent? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
48. What sort of thing could be found on valuable cloths? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
49. What makes music in Cordoba so unique? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
50. Who is Zaria and what did he do that was important? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
51. What is a conservatory __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
52. In what city was Ziryab’s conservatory located? _____________________________________________________________________
53. Name important instruments used in Islamic music __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Recreation
54. Where did Polo originate? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
55. Who usually played this sport and what was it nicknamed? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
56. When was chess introduced to Muslims? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
57. What is chess and who could play chess? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
From this reading list all the important elements each city contained
|Baghdad |Cordoba |Other (list the name of the different |
| | |cities next to their contributions) |
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Minbar- _______________________________________________________________
Mihrab-_______________________________________________________________
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