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Science & Math
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100
Muslims were taught how to make paper and gunpowder from this country.
What is China?
100
This is the name of the precise way of writing in the Muslim civilization.
What is Calligraphy?
100
The numbers II, III, and IV, are Roman Numerals. The numbers 2, 3, and 4 are called this.
What are Arabic numerals?
100
This city was the Muslim capital of trade, learning, and culture in what is now Iraq.
What is Baghdad?
100
This game popular during the Islamic Golden age is still widely popular today because of its intellectual challenge.
What is chess?
200
Muslims had great advances in these places. Their most famous one in Cordoba was said to have contained more than 400,000 books, whose titles filled a 44 volume catalog.
What are libraries?
200
This was the name of a famous Arabic collection of short stories (Taylors) ?
What is 1001 Nights?
200
Muslim scientists improved upon this Greek invention that helped chart the position of the stars.
What is the Astrolabe?
200
This capital city in Spain became a center of learning and intellectual life and was widely known as a city of bibliophiles (people who love books).
What is Cordoba?
200
The holy book of Islam is called this.
What is the Qu'aran?
300
Muslims also perfected this innovation, a technique that could be operated by man, animals or the wind.
What is the water wheel?
300
This is the word for a sponsor of Art and architecture.
What is a patron?
300
The most famous math scholar, Al Khwarazmi introduced this subject which in arabic means “the bringing together of separate parts"
What is Algebra?
300
This Muslim explorer traveled across Spain, Africa, and China.
Who is Ibn Battuta?
300
What popular bean made Mocha a chief trading port?
What is coffee?
400
During the rule of the Abbasids of Baghdad, this systemwas developed that helped to end the confusion caused by the many currencies (kinds of money) that were then in use
What is banking?
400
Most Muslim art does not show what two things?
What are people and animals?
400
Muslims were responsible for creating this number, which had not been used in Roman numerals.
What is zero?
400
These tall towers are where Muslims are called to prayer in a mosque.
What are minarets?
400
This was a Muslim movement in which people believed they can find God's love by having a personal relationship with God.
What is sufism?
500
This Muslim doctor wrote a medical encyclopedia that was one of the most famous in the history of medice.
Who is Avicenna?
500
He was one of the most famous Sufi poets.
Who is Omar Khayyam?
500
These places were created to make and provide medicine to sick people and teach people how to make medicine.
What is a pharmacy?
500
What two colors are often used to decorate Muslim architecture of this period?
What are blue and gold?
500
Muslim scholars made great advances in this subject, the scientific study of animals during the Golden Age
What is zoology?