Content for Unit 2 Section 3

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Mamun

• Abbasid caliph

• Founded House of Wisdom in Baghdad

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al-Razi

• Best known Muslim chemist
• Developed system for categorizing substance such as animals, mineral,or vegetables
• Wrote book for doctors that helped them to identify diseases

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Ibn Khaldun

• Muslim historian
• Wrote that all civilization rise, grow, and then fall

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mosque

• Muslim house of worship
• Also serve as school, courts and center of learning

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bazaar

• Marketplace
• Stalls and shops

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crier

Announcer who calls believers to prayer five times a day

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Arabic became language of trade and government

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• Scholars of Muslim
• Saved much of the learning of ancient world
• Europeans in West lost knowledge when Western Roman Empire fell

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Arabs are considered the founders of chemistry

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• Taj Mahal in Agra, India
• Mogul ruler Shah Jahan built as tomb for wife
• Marble and precious stones

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