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What is the name of the precise way of writing in the Muslim civilization
Calligraphy
100
What was Considered the Glorious Muslim City?
Abbasid capital of Baghdad
100
What was the name of the first home to thinkers and scientists , 1000 years ago in Bagdad?
The House of Wisdom
100
What makes the elephant clock work?
Water
100
Where did most medicines come from during this period?
herbs/plants
200
What was the name of a famous Arabic story book?
1001 Nights
200
What colours are often used to decorate Muslim architecture of this period?
Blue and gold
200
What Muslim invention is directly connected with Qatar’s wealth today?
Distillation of crude oil
200
What did Al-Biruni discover causes tides?
The sun and the moon
200
Which medical invention helps surgeons today?
Scalpel
300
From which country and ancient civilization were books particularly translated into Arabic?
Greek
300
1000 years ago what did Muslim towns have that we have today?
Street lights and running water
300
Who provided the money for the first University in the world in Morocco?
Fatima al fihri
300
In which country do water wheels built during the Muslim empire still exist?
Syria
300
What book did Ibn Sina write?
The Canon of medicins
400
Fashion wise, which twentieth century city was Baghdad like?
Paris
400
What is the name of the famous Muslim palace in Granada, Spain?
The Alhambra.
400
What kind of pen was first used in Muslim civilization?
Fountain pen
400
Who first mapped Europe, Asia and North Africa?
Al-Idrisi
400
How did the treatment of broken bones then differ from today?
It did not, bones were kept still in a kind of plaster cast.
500
What popular bean made Mocha a chief trading port?
Coffee
500
what is the name of the mosque that the spiral mosque on the Cornish is based on?
The great Mosque of Samarra
500
What was the name of the inventor of the man who invented the camera obscura?
Ibn al Haytham
500
What invention helped with irrigation and providing water for towns?
Water pumps
500
What illness of the eye did Al Mawsili’s invention help cur
Cataracts.