Muslim Innovations and Adaptations
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- Science and Technology
- We looked at the sky to help locate Mecca
- Geography and Navigation
- Then how big is the earth?
- The earth is small!
- Mathematics
- We greatly advanced the study of mathematics
- "Muslim scholars did much work in the field of astronomy, the study of objects in the universe. Astronomy had many practical uses for Muslims"
- Medicine
- We can give him some medicine before we do last resort operation.
- "Most educated people in medieval times believed that Earth was round, but they disagreed about Earth's size."
- City Building and Architecture
- "They based their work in part on ideas from ancient Babylon, India, and Greece."
- Recreation
- "surgeons performed delicate operations as a last resort. Drugs, such as opium and hemlock, put patients to sleep before operations"
- "Thousands of workers labored to build palaces, schools, orphanages, hospitals, mosques, and other buildings."
- We built things like this
- "Chess is a battle of wits in which players move pieces on a board according to a set of complex rules. Each player commands a small army of pieces"
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