Locations
The city of Rome is the capital of this modern country.
What is Italy?
After Al-Khwarizmi died, many later mathematicians added on to and expanded his work, including many Italians like Fibonacci.
The Largest Continent
What is Asia?
Asia is where Al-Kwarizmi spent his entire life.
The act of having a permanent home and staying in one place.
What is sedentary?
Al-Khwarizmi was sedentary, and always had a permanent home.
The study of space and the stars.
What is Astronomy?
Al-Khwarizmi charted stars and made many works in astronomy.
The second most populated modern country.
What is India?
Al-Khwarizmi could read Sanskrit, the ancient form of writing in India. He translated many works from there, and added on to them, introducing them to the Islamic Empire and Western World.
The peninsula in Southwest Asia east of Northern Africa and south of Mesopotamia and Syria.
What is the Arabian Peninsula?
Even though the Islamic Empire originated there, and Al-Khwarizmi lived in the Islamic Empire, he never lived in the Arabian Peninsula.
The name of the belief in one god.
What is monotheism?
Even though there is some debate about Al-Khwarizmi’s religious ideals and whether he was Zoroastrian or Muslim, both Zoroastrianism and Islam are Monotheistic.
Before analog or modern clocks, these were used to tell the time based on the position of the sun.
What is a sundial?
Al-Khwarizmi improved sundials to be more accurate. Sundials were used all around the empire for prayer times.
The city in the Middle East known as the “Holy Land”.
What is Jerusalem?
Al-Khwarizmi wrote a book on geography, which includes the longitude and latitude of many cities, probably including Jerusalem.
The three continents included in Al-Khwarizmi‘s map of the world. (Which three continents were known about by Islamic scholars in 800 AD)
What are Europe, Asia, and Africa?
Al-Khwarizmi and a group of other scholars created a map of the known world.
Imam was another name for this vocabulary word.
What is a Caliph?
Al-Khwarizmi was given some tasks by the Caliph, mostly geography based.
Taught as a 9th grade math course at the DC Everest Junior High School, the part of Mathematics where letters, or variables, are used to represent numbers in formulas and equations.
What is Algebra?
Algebra was invented by Al-Khwarizmi, and was one of his most famous accomplishments in mathematics.
Baghdad is the Capital of this modern Middle Eastern country.
What is Iraq?
Baghdad was where Al-Khwarizmi spent a majority of his life, it was the capital of the Islamic Empire at the time.
The name of the region between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers.
What is Mesopotamia?
Al-Khwarizmi moved to Mesopotamia, and worked at the House of Wisdom in Baghgad.
This vocabulary word means surrender, or submission.
What is Islam?
Even though he lived in the Islamic Empire, some sources argue that he was actually raised as a Zoroastrian, and not a Muslim.
A process or set of instructions to solve a problem or compute something in mathematics or in computers.
What is Algorithm?
The word Algorithm was named after Al-Khwarizmi’s latinized name, Al-Goritmi. Over time, the “i” at the end was dropped and a “h” was added after the t.