The Golden Age
Three main areas of advancement during the Islamic Golden Age
What were art, mathematics, and medicine?
The year Muhammed was born (570 BCE, 570 CE, or 1500 CE)
What is 570 CE?
Ibn Sina is best known for making advancements in this area of science.
What is math, astronomy, and medicine (pulse of the heart)?
The walls of Baghdad were concentric, meaning this
What is circular and having a common center?
The collection of folk tales from the Islamic Golden Age that tells the story of Shahrazad and the evil king Shahrayar.
What is the "1001 Nights" or the "1001 Arabian Nights" or just plain "Arabian Nights"?
The centuries of the Islamic Golden Age
What are the 9th through the 14 centuries?
the place of Muhammed's birth and therefore the holiest place of Islam
What is Mecca?
Ibn Al Haytham is best known for his contributions to this field
What is optics? (How light and our eyes work)
the population of Baghdad at the height of the empire
What is two million people?
The art of the Islamic Golden Age is best known for this
What is intricate tile work?
The geographical area of the Islamic empire
What is the Arabian Peninsula (middle east) to Spain in the west and Northern India in the east?
Muhammed is believed to be the "prophet" of Islam. This means that...
He was inspired by Allah (God) to give a message to his people
Even though he did not gain fame for it in his lifetime, Omar Khayyam is best known for this
What is his poetry (The Rubaiyat)?
The great library and educational center n Baghdad during the Islamic Golden Age
What was the House of Wisdom?
What is the Silk Road?
the word used to refer to the leader of the Islamic empire, his followers, his government, and the land the empire encompasses
What is the "caliphate"?
At age 40, facing persecution, Muhammed flees to this city
What is Medina?
the founder of modern surgical techniques
Who was Ibn Sina?
What is the Mongol army?
Baghdad, the capital of the Islamic Empire, was situated on this river
What is the Tigris River?
The caliphate that ruled during the height of the Islamic Golden Age
Who were the Abbasids?
The word literally means "submitter," and it's the name for a believer in Islam and the prophet Muhammed.
What is Muslim?
discoverer of refraction of light
Who was Ibn Al-Haytham?
The type of building that lay at the center of Baghdad
What is a mosque?
the terms for the spreading of culture, such as language, art, and ideas
What is cultural diffusion?