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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