HISTORY
THE MUSLIM WORLD AND AFRICA
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Jews and Christians were expelled from Islamic lands.
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Muslim artists excelled in painting scenes of people from the Bible and Quran.
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Muslim scholars made important advances in mathematics and science.
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The practice of slavery spread to the Americas.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Muslim mathematicians invented the present arithmetical decimal system and the fundamental operations connected with it – addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, raising to a power, and extracting the square root and the cubic root.
Detailed explanation-2: -One of the Islamic world’s most significant contributions to modern science was the translation of mathematical, medical, and astronomical texts from their original languages into Arabic.
Detailed explanation-3: -Islamic scientists in the 10th century were involved in three major mathematical projects: the completion of arithmetic algorithms, the development of algebra, and the extension of geometry.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.