Islamic Accomplishments Aanchal S.
Published on Nov 18, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
ART
- Calligraphy was used to decorate buildings, swords, and armor
- It was wrong to to paint humans because they thought that people would start worshipping them
- A type of art was arabesque
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BOOKMAKING AND LITERATURE
- They used calligraphy in books
- Paper was better than parchment
- House of Wisdom was based on subjects from all around the world
- The Thousand and One Nights is an Islamic based book
- The quatrains are a four line poems which the second and fourth line rhyme
MATH AND SCIENCE
- Algebra
- The base ten system
- Geometry
- An accurate calendar
- They learned how to find Mecca from any place on earth
MEDICINE
- They identified smallpox and measles
- The Cannon of Medicine was used for 600 years
- They treated to poor
- The hospital was like a teaching center
MATHEMATICS, ASTRONOMY, AND GEOGRAPHY
- They made a planetarium
- Made maps based on travels
- They had an accurate calendar
MEDICINE AND PHILOSOPHY
- Doctors were calm and kind
- The greatest doctor wrote a 30-volume medical encyclopedia
- Latin translations helped reintroduced Greek philosophy to Europe
