Fall of Rome
This theory believed illness was caused by an imbalance of four body fluids.
What is the Four Humors?
This time period preserved and improved ancient Greek and Roman medical ideas.
What is the Islamic Golden Age?
This famous doctor wrote The Canon of Medicine.
Who is Avicenna (Ibn Sina)?
Roman medicine focused more on prevention than curing disease.
What is public health?
Ancient doctors often believed disease came from spirits or imbalance, while modern doctors use this.
What is science?
After Rome fell, most medical knowledge was preserved by this group.
Who are monks (the Church)?
Muslim scholars translated medical texts into this language to save knowledge.
What is Arabic?
This medical book was used in Europe for hundreds of years.
What is The Canon of Medicine?
Islamic hospitals included separate wards for different illnesses.
What are specialized hospital wards?
Islamic medicine influenced this later medical system.
What is modern Western medicine?
During the fall of Rome, most people relied on this instead of trained doctors.
➡️ What is herbal or home remedies?
Hospitals during the Islamic Golden Age were called this and treated all patients.
What are Bimaristans?
This doctor focused on observing symptoms and separating illnesses like smallpox and measles.
Who is Al‑Razi?
Doctors during the Islamic Golden Age kept written records of patients.
What are medical records?
Roman public health focused on clean water, while modern health also requires this.
➡️ What is medical technology?
Roman public health declined when aqueducts and sewers stopped being maintained. This led to more of this problem.
What is disease and poor sanitation?
Islamic doctors believed in treating both the body and the mind.
What is holistic medicine?
Most doctors in medieval Europe learned medicine through this method.
What is apprenticeship or religious study?
When Roman sanitation systems failed, this type of illness spread faster.
What are infectious diseases?
During the Fall of Rome, fewer people learned medicine because of this.
What is lack of education?
Medical progress slowed in Europe after Rome fell mainly because knowledge was no longer widely shared.
What is the loss of education and learning centers?
This civilization emphasized observation, testing, and written medical records.
Who are Islamic physicians/scientists?
This type of scholar helped connect ancient medicine to modern medicine.
Who are Islamic Golden Age scholars?
This medical approach used experiments instead of superstition.
What is evidence‑based medicine?
Which civilization made more medical progress: Europe after Rome fell or the Islamic Golden Age?
What is the Islamic Golden Age?