Ch. 3 Section 3 Islam Legacy Flashcard

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Muslims built on the ideas of what Greek mathematician?

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Euclid

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What major achievement in mathematics did the Muslims make?

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They encouraged the adoption of the decimal number system.

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What physician tried to join the ideas of Islam to those of Aristotle and Plato?

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Ibn Rushd

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What did al-Zahrawi develop?

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30-volume medical encyclopedia

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Why do mosques not contain images of humans?

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Drawing humans is seen as trying to imitate God's act of creation.

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What did Omar Khayyam make popular?

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four-line rhyming poem called the quatrain.

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How did physicians in the Muslim empire work to advance medicine?

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They collected the best medical knowledge and then organized it into reference books.

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How did Muslim scholars build on earlier learning?

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Built on the knowledge of the Greeks to develop geometry, trigonometry and algebra.

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What is the design of arabesque described as?

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patterns of flowers, leaves, vines, and geometric shapes

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A typical mosque was topped by a large dome and had one or more.....

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minarets