HISTORY
MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN EUROPE
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Scribes and monks recorded and saved multiple copies of the information
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Christian scholars traveled to Islamic universities to study the information
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Libraries and institutions such as the House of Wisdom stored information
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Nomadic Arab tribes carried the information with them on various conquests
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Muslim conquerors eventually came into possession of various Greek and Roman manuscripts. Rather than destroy these works, Muslim scholars carefully preserved them, translating them into Arabic, studying them, and in some cases building on ideas set down by the ancient writers in their own works.
Detailed explanation-2: -By the later eighth century, the Abbasid court’s interest in medical and scientific knowledge led to the creation of the famous House of Wisdom (Bait al-Hikma) in Baghdad, in which scientific texts were translated, studied, and preserved.
Detailed explanation-3: -Scientists advanced the fields of algebra, calculus, geometry, chemistry, biology, medicine, and astronomy. Many forms of art flourished during the Islamic Golden Age, including ceramics, metalwork, textiles, illuminated manuscripts, woodwork, and calligraphy.
Detailed explanation-4: -Surgery. Around the year 1, 000, the celebrated doctor Al Zahrawi published a 1, 500 page illustrated encyclopedia of surgery that was used in Europe as a medical reference for the next 500 years. Coffee. Flying machine. University. Algebra. Optics. Music. Toothbrush. More items •29-Jan-2010