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Islamic Civilization

Islamic Civilization. Muslim Culture and Achievements . Trade and Everyday Life . Leading merchants in Middle East until the 1400s Traveled to China Spices, cloth, glass, and carpets Returned with rubies, silk, ivory, gold, and slaves Arabic= trade language, used coins--- led to banking

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Islamic Civilization

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  1. Islamic Civilization Muslim Culture and Achievements

  2. Trade and Everyday Life • Leading merchants in Middle East until the 1400s • Traveled to China • Spices, cloth, glass, and carpets • Returned with rubies, silk, ivory, gold, and slaves • Arabic= trade language, used coins--- led to banking • Muslim cities had Mosques and bazaars • Most Muslims lived on farms

  3. Muslim Society • Social classes based on power and wealth • Government leaders • Artisans • Slaves- only non-Muslims • Served as soldiers and servants, could buy back freedom • Women: helped run family • Inherit wealth and property • Due to modesty many places required women to cover their faces in public

  4. Muslim Achievements • Mamun founded the House of Wisdom in Baghdad • Staffed with Jews, Christians, and Muslim scholars • Exchanged ideas and translated documents into Arabic • Preserved the knowledge of ancient Greece and Rome • Invented Algebra • 0-9: Arabic numerals/ I-X: Roman numerals • Perfected the astrolabe • Determined the Earth is round

  5. Science • Founders of Chemistry • Al-Razi developed a system for categorizing substances • Helped doctors identify diseases • IbnSina showed how disease spread

  6. Muslim Writings • The Thousand and One Nights • Tales from India, Persia, and Arabia • Omar Khayyam: (Slejuk Turk period) • Wrote one of the greatest poems Rubaiyat • IbnKhaldun • Historian • Civilizations rise, grow and then fall • Studied how geography and climate affects people

  7. Art and Buildings • Developed own art based on Islam • No Muhammad • Flowers, leaves, and stars to create art • Minarets: large towers from which the crier make call to prayer • TajMahal

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