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Muslim Innovations/Adaptations
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- City Building and Architecture
- If this mosque was built for prayer, what will it be used as in the future?
- Geography and Navigation
- I do not know how to use a compass, and my ship broke! I wish I knew more about these devices and navigation!
- I came here to study the marine life as a geographist!
- Medicine
- This is my medical house, where I treat wounds and sickness.
- The mosque is a building for prayer towards Mecca, and there are many design styles. The city of Baghdad was the biggest Muslim city, and was the capital.
- Art and Music
- Lute noises
- The compass was used to find if you were heading North, South, West, or East. Astrolabes computed the time based on the location of stars, or the Sun itself
- Recreation
- Well, chess is a game all about strategy!
- Medicine was one of the top innovations from Islam, where they improved heavily on the healthcare system and the medicine field itself. Hospitals were built so that doctors could heal and treat the sick in a safe area, where they could not have the risk of infecting others.
- Mathematics
- Come inside for my new algebra class!
- The lute was a Muslim instrument, along with bagpipes and guitars. Caligraphy was believed to be a worthy way to write the words of god. They refused to use animals in a picture because they believed only god could create living things, so they used floral designs.
- Who is playing the lute?
- I still can't believe that you beat me in chess yesterday!
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