The Islamic Golden Age Video Questions

Two thirds or 66% of the stars that are named have _____.

• Arabic names

• Hebrew names

• Greek names

• Latin names

A time when scientific studies and research in fields like medicine, economics, mathematics, astronomy, geography, and many more were flourishing in the Islamic world.

• Age of Reason

• Dark Ages

• Golden Age

• Age of Enlightenment

Al-Khwarizmi was a Persian _____.

• scientist

• polymath

• astronomer

• geologist

Which groups came together to fuel the Golden Age?

• Muslim and Christian scholars

• Jewish and Zoroastrian scholars

• Persian and Roman scholars

• Chinese and Arabian scholars

• 
  People of all religions and cultures

Which group came to power in 750 CE or when the Islamic Golden Age began?

• Ummayads

• Abbasids

• Ottomans

• Rashidun

Al-Mansur founded the city of (a)   , the center of the Golden Age.

(a)   came from the Chinese and found its way in the Islamic world in 751 CE. It played an important role in the Golden Age.

How did scholars preserve knowledge?

• They built universities for scribes.

• They kept ancient books in gigantic libraries.

• They trained scholars to become educators.

• They translated the ancient books to Arabic.

Islamic scholars only worked on translating ancient books.

• True

• False

Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi founded the basis of _____, a branch of mathematics.

• Geometry

• Calculus

• Algebra

• Trigonometry