Baghdad & the Abbasids
What city became the Abbasid capital and a major center of trade, learning, and culture?
Baghdad
What famous Baghdad institution was a center for study, translation, preservation, and scholarship?
The House of Wisdom
What do we call a reason that attracts someone to move to a new place?
A pull factor
What branch of mathematics developed during the Islamic Golden Age uses symbols and equations to solve problems?
Algebra
What term describes a period when a society experiences major achievements in science, culture, art, and learning?
A Golden Age
What ruling dynasty made Baghdad its capital and supported scholars and learning?
The Abbasids
Scholars translated writings from what two ancient Mediterranean civilizations so their knowledge would not be lost?
Greece and Rome
What type of migration happens when people choose to move from one place to another?
Voluntary migration
What instrument did Muslim astronomers use to study the sky and help with navigation?
The astrolabe
What do historians call the spread of ideas, beliefs, technology, or cultural practices from one society to another?
Cultural diffusion
Baghdad’s connection to what helped merchants move goods between many different regions?
Trade routes
Scholars at the House of Wisdom did not just save old ideas. What else did they do with them?
They built on, improved, and expanded them.
Baghdad’s libraries, schools, wealth, and opportunities to study are examples of what for scholars?
Pull factors
What institutions provided organized medical care and helped physicians study and record medical knowledge?
Hospitals
What happened when scholars from many cultures met and shared knowledge?
They developed new ideas and innovations.
What term means financial or political support given to scholars, artists, or learning?
Patronage
Greek, Roman, Persian, Indian, and other ideas meeting in Baghdad are an example of what?
Cultural exchange
Besides products, what else could travel along trade routes?
Ideas, knowledge, technology, beliefs, and culture
What two artistic features were common in Islamic art?
Geometric designs and calligraphy
Political conflict, weakening unity, changing leadership priorities, intellectual tensions, and invasions all contributed to what?
The decline of the Islamic Golden Age
Give two reasons Baghdad became both an economic center and a center of learning.
Its location on trade routes and Abbasid support for scholars and learning. Also accept wealth, scholars, House of Wisdom, or cultural exchange.
What two important values are shown by the existence of the House of Wisdom?
Learning and the preservation/sharing of knowledge
Give one economic effect and one cultural effect of trade and migration on Baghdad.
Economic: increased trade or wealth. Cultural: increased exchange of people, ideas, or knowledge.
Name two fields advanced during the Islamic Golden Age and give an example from each.
Examples: Math—algebra; Astronomy—astrolabe; Medicine—hospitals; Art—geometric designs/calligraphy; Literature—The Thousand and One Nights.
Complete the chain: Abbasid support + Baghdad’s location + trade + migration + House of Wisdom → ______ → lasting influence on later societies.
New knowledge, discoveries, and achievements