WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -What facilitated trade and stimulated intellectual activity in the Muslim world? The Arabic language helped make trade and intellectual scholarship easier in the Muslim world.

Detailed explanation-2: -Political unity of the first Muslim empire was short-lived. Arabic language spread with Islam and facilitated trade across Islamic lands.

Detailed explanation-3: -New disciplines emerged – algebra, trigonometry and chemistry as well as major advances in medicine, astronomy, engineering and agriculture. Arabic texts replaced Greek as the fonts of wisdom, helping to shape the scientific revolution of the Renaissance.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Silk Roads are amongst some of the most important routes in our collective history. It was through these roads that relations between east and west were established, exposing diverse regions to different ideas and ways of life.

Detailed explanation-5: -The expanse of Islamic trade had a direct result on the spread of the Islam religion. Traders brought their religion to West Africa where Islam quickly spread throughout the region. Areas in the far east such as Malaysia and Indonesia also became Muslim through traders and Islamic Sufis.

Detailed explanation-6: -Muslim states and empires encourage significant intellectual innovations and transfers. Innovations: Advances in mathematics (Nasir al-Din al-Tusi), Advances in literature (A’ishah al-Ba’uniyyah), Advance in Medicine (Avicenna).