Western Civilization I / Unit 9 WC1 0832 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The House of Wisdom: What Abbasid Science Gave
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The idea
Baghdad's House of Wisdom translated Aristotle and the Greeks and advanced medicine, optics, where the eye was shown to receive light, chemistry with distillation, mathematics with Arabic numerals from India and algebra, geography with the astrolabe, and banking with cheques.
In practice
Literacy the anchor calls higher than anywhere else.
Where people slip
The anchor's early telescopes are unsupported and not voiced. The rest is the record.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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