#2 - Worlds Together Worlds Apart - Chapter 2 : The Blossoming of Abbasid Culture to Islam a Wider World 

The Blossoming of Abbasid Culture

• During the abbasid period the language became more important, even surpassed the greeks as the muslim world preffered the language for the arts.
• Islam stored much important info from greece.
  • They brought the idea of storing info from other places.

Islam a Wider World

• As Islam spread it wad difficult for political regimes to hold its dispersed believers together.
• In Spain under Abdal-Rahman III, a muslim state founded a century earlier brought peace to region
  • He promoted peace among Muslims, Christians, and the Jewish
  • Generated commercial exchanges using diplomacy with christian patentates (powerful regional leaders) from France, Germany and Scandinavia
• In Spain
  • Muslims, Jews, and Chrisitian co-existed in peace.
  • Center of Islamic learning (cordova)
• In Asia
  • Development of science, math (0 and base 10) and Modern medicine.
• In Sub-Saharan Africa (S-S Afr)
  • Situated places along trade routes
  • Gold, Slaves, ivory. Which all generated a lot of wealth which lead to new kingdoms and port cities.
• Mathematician Al-Kwarizmi (780-850 CE) wrote first Algebra book.
• Islam went into Africa by traders and scholars.
• By the 10th century the first African coast had mixed into Afro-Arab Culture.