Key Terms
Who traveled to India, Africa, China and Spain and contributed his knowledge to the study of geography?
Ibn Battutah
Astrolabe are used to figure out what?
Location, direction and time of day
Two forms of literature became popular in the Muslims world. What were they?
Poetry and short stories
Astronomy:
Astronomy is the study of the sun, moon, and stars.
True
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Omar Khayyam
What does Sufism teach?
I teaches that people can find God's love by having a personal relationship with God.
Who wrote the Algebra textbook?
al-Khawarizmi
What did patrons do for art and architecture in the Muslim world?
They used their wealth to pay for elaborately decorated mosques.
Geography:
New and improved maps did not lead to more travel.
False. New and improved maps led to even more travel.
200
Encyclopedia
Who was Omar Khayyam?
A Persian mathematician, astronomer, and poet.
The first Muslim public hospital was built in ___________.
Baghdad
What function do minarets play in mosques?
Call Muslims to prayer.
Medicine:
Muslim doctors made medicines from plants.
True. Mandrake was used to treat pain and illnesses.
300
Calligraphy
What are patrons?
Sponsors
What was one important discovery that al-Idrisi made through maps?
He proved that land did not go all the way around the Indian Ocean as many people thought.
How did Muslim artists create art without showing humans or animals?
Calligraphy
Architecture:
Most people would agree that mosques were the greatest architectural achievement of the Muslim empires.
True
400
Miranet
What is a minaret?
A narrow tower from which Muslims are called to prayer.
Muslims made great achievements in medicine. One achievement was the medical encyclopedia. in your opinion, why was this important to the medical field?
Descriptions of drugs and drug effects written in the encyclopedia helped doctors to accurately diagnose patients.
What two architectural elements were usually part of a mosque?
Dome and minaret
Math:
Muslim mathematicians combined Persian and Greek ideas with their own to dramatically increase human knowledge of mathematics.
False. Indian and Greek
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The Astrolabe