Islamic World
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- Why were Muslim traders successful
- Muslim cities and farms
- How was Muslim society organized?
- Muslim people helped traders by giving them coins to use for buying and selling goods. This way, it was a easier trading method than bartering for goods. Also, Muslims respected merchants for their business skills and the wealth they made.
- Muslim Contributions
- Better trade led to the growth of cities throughout the Islamic world. Makkah, Bagdad, Cairo, Damascus, and Cordoba were the major trade routes. And in there, luxury things like steel swords and embroidered silk capes were traded.
- Science and Mathematics
- Men and women had separate roles in the Muslim society. For example, mothers and young children could not be separated. And men were in charge of government, society, and business.
- Medicine
- Arabic was the most common used language in the Muslim world. The usage of Arabic helped with the exchange of goods and ideas among different Islamic people. For example, in 830 C.E., the Abbasid caliph Mamum founded the House of Wisdom in Baghdad.
- At the Baghdad observatory founded by Mamun, Muslim astronomers studied the skies. Those studies helped them make mathematical models of the universe. And The people correctly described the sun's eclipses and proved that the moon affects ocean tides.
- Arab doctors discovered that blood circulates, or moves to and from the heart. They also found out about certain diseases. And lastly, Muslim doctors shared their knowledge by publishing their findings.
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