Vocabulary
Who is Mamun?
Who is an Abbasid caliph who founded the House of Wisdom in Baghdad with Christian, Jewish, and Muslim scholars
Muslim traders practiced ____________.
what is banking?
Muslims were the leading ______ in the Middle East and Northern Africa until the late 1400s.
What is merchants
How did Muslim rulers give their merchants an advantage?
What is they provided them with coins for buying and selling goods. They were also at the top of the social class.
What is one important part of every Muslim city?
What is the bazaar
What is a mosque?
What is a Muslim house of worship
What were Muslim traders respected for?
what is skill and wealth
The Muslims carried______, cloth, glass, steel, and carpets.
What is spices
What contributions did Muslims make in the field of medicine?
What is they figured out how diseases spread from one person to another and that blood circulates
What is a type of mathematics still taught as schools today that was invented by Muslims?
What is algebra
Who is Omar Khayyam?
Who is a Persian poet who wrote the Rubaiyat, one of the finest poems ever written
Who did farmers and enslaved people work for?
Who are landowners?
______became the language of trade
What is Arabic
What contributions did Muslims make in math?
What is they invented algebra and they borrowed the symbols 0 through 9
What did the Muslims perfect?
What is the Greek astrolabe
What is a minaret?
What is a tower from which a crier calls believers to prayer five times a day
What role did men play in the Muslim world?
what is they ran government, society, and business.
The leading Muslim cities were located on the trade_____.
What is routes
What factors made Muslim trade strong?
What is Muslim rulers providing merchants with coins for buying and selling goods, banking, and the Arabic language
What are Arabs considered the founders of?
What is chemistry
Who is Ibn Khaldun?
Who is a Persian doctor who showed how diseases spread from one person to another
What role did women play in the Muslim world?
what is they ran Muslim families, inherited wealth, owned property and had to cover their face and wear long robes in public?
The cities included palaces and_____, Muslim houses of worship
What is mosques
What are the three Muslim social groups?
What is the top was government leaders, landowners, and traders. Below them were artisans, farmers, and workers. At the bottom was enslaved people. This was based on power and wealth.
What did Arab doctors discover about blood?
What is that it circulates to and from the heart