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➢Slaves (consisted of those captured and indebted who couldn’t pay)

·       Mandatory education

·       Chocolates

·       Antispasmodic medication

·       Chinampa

·       Calendar

·       Canoe

·       Mosaic masks made of turquoise, obsidian, and green or black stone

·       Weapons

ASIA – INDIA

Astronomy

·       theories on configuration of the universe

·       the spherical self-supporting earth

·       360 days with 12 equal parts of 30 days each

·       7-8 planets

·       Sun is a star

·       Eclipses

·       Longitudes of planets

·       Moon’s Crescent

-          Known for manufacturing iron and in metallurgical works

-          Ayurveda

-          Astronomy

-          Mathematics

-          Mohendojaro Ruler Standard measurement of length

Aryabhata

-          first of the major mathematician- astronomers from the classical age of Indian mathematics and Indian astronomy

-          He states that the Moon and planets shine by reflected sunlight

Aryabhatiya

-          Place value system

-          Approximation of π Trigonometry

Brahmagupta

-          Defined the properties of the number zero, both as a placeholder and a decimal digit

Madhava

-          mathematical analysis

ASIA – CHINA

·       Acupuncture

·       Compass

·       Heavenly bodies and lunar calendars

·       Papermaking

ASIA – MIDDLE EAST

Hasan Ibn al-Haytham

-          Father of Optics

-          **Intromission Theory of Light

-          was an Arab mathematician, astronomer, and physicist of the Islamic Golden Age

Muhammad ibn Musa a l-Khwarizmi

-          Algorithm in mathematics

-          Algebra from al-jabr calendars, calculating true positions of the sun, moon and planets, tables of sines and tangents, spherical astronomy, astrological tables

Jabir ibn Hayyan

-          Father of Chemistry

Ibn Sina Experimental medicine

-          Clinical trial

-          Contagious nature of infectious diseases

-          Pharmacology

AFRICA

·       Geometry

·       Lebombo Bone

·       Alchemy

·       Human anatomy

·       Pharmacology

·       Medicine

·       Astronomy

·       Calendar

·       Solar, lunar, stellar

·       Metallurgy

·       Iron technology