Chapter 4

Section 3Cultural Achievements

Fold your paper in halfAND TURN YOUR PAPER OVER

ON THE SIDE THAT YOU CAN SEE THROUGH THE PAPER THAT SAYS

*DRAW PICTURES

• ON THE SIDE THAT SAYS

“ISLAMIC CONTRIBUTIONS”

*WRITE FACTS

DIRECTIONSTEXTBOOK: Pages 94-99

1. Fold the flip chart in half

2. Turn the paper so the word “Astronomy is at the top of the page

3. Open the chart and look inside

4. On the side that you can see through the page that says “Astronomy”, draw and color pictures

5. On the side that you can see through the page and see the words

“Islamic Contributions” copy the facts from this PowerPoint onto the

yellow paper on this side of the page

6. Ignore the directions on the actual page. This handout was photo copied upside down

ASTRONOMY• Used to pray to Mecca• The astrolabe was invented by Greek scientists to chart the position of the stars and to determine their location when

traveling. It was improved upon by Arab scholars

GEOGRAPHY• Used stars for navigation• Made better maps

• Ibn-Battutah was a famous Muslim explorer who traveled to Africa, India, China and Spain

• Al-Idrisi sent out trained geographers to determine the exact location of many mts, rivers and coastlines

MATH• “Arabic” numerals • Muslim Mathematician Al-Khwarizmi invented algebra

MEDICINE

• Medical encyclopedias

• Ibn-Sina- wrote the most famous book in the history of medicine

Philosophy

• A new movement called sufism = a philosophy that

focuses on loving God (Allah) and having a personal relationship with him

LITERATURE• Poetry influenced by Sufism• Wrote “Thousand and One Nights”• Stories/literature• Poetry and short stories are 2 popular forms of literature

ARCHITECTURE• The people paid for buildings (PATRONS)• As the Muslim world grew richer, the rulers

supported great works of architecture• Mosques were built to look like the

courtyard of Muhammad’s house

ART

• Turned Qur’an into art using calligraphy

• Calligraphy- was turned into an art because they could not show animal or human images in their art work

Paper from China

ASTRONOMYGEOGRAPHYMATHMEDICINEPHILOSOPHYLITERATUREARCHITECTUREART

1 12 23 34 45 56 67 78 8

Number Each Box

1. Cut out each individual word

2. On this paper,it was not photocopiedcorrectly, so cut below the word

3. write the factswhere it says “cut here”

ASTRONOMYGEOGRAPHYMATHMEDICINEPHILOSOPHYLITERATUREARCHITECTUREART