Math
What are Roman Numerals?
A number system using letters.
True
Who was Ibn Sayyar al-Warraq and what did he compile or put together?
What is a mosque?
a name for an Islamic place of worship.
Potatoes, corn, beans, peanuts, manioc, chili peppers, tomatoes, and squash.
What types of tools did the Inca use to create their roads?
Bonus what did they build that was probably the first in the world?
Primitive tools and stone.
Suspension Bridges (rope bridge).
In the pyramid of power, what is the order of power in the Incan empire?
Sapa Inca
Governors
officials, priests, judges, army officers, tax collectors.
Commoners.
Who was Muhammad ibn Musa Khwarizmi and what problem did he solve?
A great mathematician, he helped create our current number system (1,2,3,4 and so on)
Bathhouses, it helped to prevent the spread of illness and disease.
When was Baghdad Founded?
762 CE
What was one of the Muslims greatest innovations in architecture?
Bonus what was another arch that was developed for its beauty?
The pointed Arch.
The ogee arch
What type of farming was a common practice in the Andes Mountains?
Terrace Farming.
How many miles worth of roads did the Inca build?
24,000 miles of roads.
Who were Sapa Inca and what did the Inca believe about them?
Algebra, astronomy, and even in geography.
What did the physician called Ibn Sina pioneer?
A method of setting bones that is still used today.
Within the city there are four huge streets filled with what?
Bonus: what did they sell?
shopping and arcades
They sold - spices, carpets, and everything else you can imagine.
Besides arches what other impressive architectural structure did these great mosques typically have?
Great Domes.
What did they build to help irrigate their crops? and where did the water come from?
Because they Inca didn't have a written language, how did the roads help them communicate?
The Inca did not use any form of money. What did they use instead when collecting tribute or taxes?
They paid in harvest (food they grew) or with pottery, textiles and gems. They could also pay with work or a labor tax.
What term did Al-Khwarizmi's name in Latin lead to?
The English term algorithm.
What did the book, "The Canon of Medicine" collect?
the most sophisticated medical Knowledge.
What were some of the eating habits in the Islamic Classical Age?
Answers based on sample recipe.
What do all Mosques have?
Bonus: What do many mosques have that call people to prayer?
A mihrab or prayer niche, pointing to Mecca.
A tall tower called a minaret.
What is a ayllu? What was it's purpose?
They were for feeding the emperor and his nobles, priests and gods and lastly themselves.
All roads lead to Cuzco, Cuzco was the capital and their biggest city.
What is a Quipu?
A Color Coded System of Counting Knots used to keep track of crop yields, taxes paid, and taxes owed.
True or False? It is said that without Al-Khwarizmi's discoveries the past 1,000 years of scientific discoveries wouldn't have been possible.
True
What did the Islamic Physician Abu al-Qasim Al-Zahrawi write?
bonus: what did he also invent?
The illustrated book about surgery
He invented several surgical instruments.
Families of importance who lived in palaces or houses inside the walls.
In design, What was central or a common feature of Muslim Architecture?
Geometric Patterns and Caliligraphy.
What did they use storehouses for?
To store food to feed traveling armies. Also was used for disaster relief.
Who primarily used the roads? Who was not allowed to use them without permission and who made sure they didn't?
Government, Commoners, Armies.
Why were commoners and people of the incan empire so willing to give away thier goods? What did they get in return?
Protection. By supporting the government in return the government took care of them. They took care of the sick and elderly and made sure people in the empire had homes.