The Islamic Golden Age Flashcards
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Key vocabulary for the Islamic Golden Age — scholars, inventions, and cultural achievements.
Flashcards
- Islamic Golden Age
- A period (750–1258 CE) when Islamic civilization led the world in math, science, medicine, and philosophy.
- Abbasid Caliphate
- The Islamic empire (750–1258 CE) centered in Baghdad that sponsored the Golden Age of Islamic learning.
- House of Wisdom
- A great research library in Baghdad where scholars translated and expanded on ancient Greek, Persian, and Indian knowledge.
- Baghdad
- Capital of the Abbasid Caliphate; the center of the Islamic Golden Age and one of the world's greatest medieval cities.
- Al-Khwarizmi
- 9th-century Islamic mathematician who invented algebra and developed the concept of algorithms.
- Algebra
- A branch of mathematics using symbols to represent numbers and solve equations; invented by al-Khwarizmi.
- Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
- Islamic physician (980–1037 CE) whose Canon of Medicine was the standard European medical textbook for 600 years.
- Ibn al-Haytham
- Islamic scientist (965–1040 CE) who founded the science of optics by correctly explaining how vision and light work.
- Al-Zahrawi
- 10th-century Islamic surgeon who invented over 200 surgical instruments; considered the father of modern surgery.
- Arabic numerals
- The 0-9 number system, originally from India, spread globally by Arab scholars to replace Roman numerals.
- Al-Biruni
- Islamic scholar (973–1048 CE) who accurately calculated Earth's circumference and wrote extensively on history, geography, and science.
- Caliphate
- An Islamic state led by a caliph — a political and religious leader considered the successor to the Prophet Muhammad.
- 1258 CE
- Year the Mongols under Hulagu Khan destroyed Baghdad and the House of Wisdom, ending the Islamic Golden Age.
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