WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

THE MUSLIM WORLD AND AFRICA

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
European intellectuals in the MIddle Ages often studied academic advances and translated ancient works that were made or preserved by:
A
the Mongols
B
Russian tsars
C
Islamic scholars
D
Byzantine priests
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Islam spread through military conquest, trade, pilgrimage, and missionaries. Arab Muslim forces conquered vast territories and built imperial structures over time.

Detailed explanation-2: -In the latter half of the fourteenth century, two of the era’s most famous poets emerged from this urban merchant background: Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower. Chaucer is famous for his Canterbury Tales and Gower for Confessio Amantis.

Detailed explanation-3: -For many, the Muslim world in the medieval period (900–1300) means the crusades. While this era was marked, in part, by military struggle, it is also overwhelmingly a period of peaceable exchanges of goods and ideas between West and East.

Detailed explanation-4: -What was one of the primary ways Islam’s Golden Age impacted the European Renaissance? Islamic scholars preserved some of art and literature’s most classical works, inspiring the Europeans.

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