Early Islamic World Science and Technology

______ were required to attend medical school where they studied the works of the Ancient Greeks and Indians

• Nurses

• Scholars

• Patients

• Doctors

________ was used for navigation, determining an accurate calendar, and for religious purposes (determining the direction of Mecca and prayer times)

• Mathematics

• Astronomy

• Medicine

• Technology

They built dams, irrigation canals, waterwheels, pumps, aqueducts, and cisterns. These were various ways to measure water and control the flow of water. This would be in the area of:

• Technology

• Mathematics

• Engineering

• Science

Islamic scholars helped to reproduce the work of many greek scientists and mathematicians such as:

• Saladin

• Aristotle

• Battuta

• Islam

The work of Islamic astronomers had a significant influence on later astronomers such as:

• Galileo and Copernicus

• Copernicus and Archit

• Galileo and Abbasid

• none of these

Arab _______ who was a scientist is considered one of the world's first theoretical _______

• Suleiman, magician

• Umayyad, Caliphate

• Ibn a-Haytham, physicists

• Saddam Ben Loden,

  astro-scientist

Islamic scholars studied the mathematics of earlier civilizations in greece, India, and China. Perhaps the most important mathematical advancement was in the area of:

• physics

• addition

• algebra

• geography