# The Islamic Golden Age

> Grade 7: Baghdad's House of Wisdom, advances in maths (algebra, Arabic numerals), medicine and astronomy, trade and learning AD 750-1250.

Source: https://olyclass.com/library/social-g7-islamic-golden-age-en/

- Subject: History & geography
- Level: Grade 7
- Quiz: 16
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## Questions

1. In which city was the famous House of Wisdom? (Athens / Baghdad / Cairo / Rome)
   Answer: Baghdad
2. What was the House of Wisdom mainly used for? (Building ships / Storing grain / Training soldiers / Translating and studying books)
   Answer: Translating and studying books
3. Scholars at the House of Wisdom translated Greek books into Arabic.
   Answer: True
4. Which ruling family founded Baghdad in AD 762? (The Abbasids / The Ottomans / The Romans / The Vikings)
   Answer: The Abbasids
5. The word 'algebra' comes from a book by which scholar? (Al-Haytham / Al-Khwarizmi / Ibn Battuta / Ibn Sina)
   Answer: Al-Khwarizmi
6. Which number system, spread by Arab scholars, do we use today? (Egyptian hieroglyphs / Hindu-Arabic numerals / Roman numerals / Tally marks)
   Answer: Hindu-Arabic numerals
7. Which important number, meaning 'nothing', helped make Arabic numerals so useful?
   Answer: Zero
8. Ibn Sina wrote a huge medical book called what? (The Book of Algebra / The Book of Kings / The Canon of Medicine / The Great Atlas)
   Answer: The Canon of Medicine
9. Medieval Muslim cities built hospitals where patients were treated by trained doctors.
   Answer: True
10. Which instrument did Muslim astronomers use to find time, direction and star positions? (The astrolabe / The barometer / The sundial clock / The telescope camera)
   Answer: The astrolabe
11. Name the science of studying stars and planets that was advanced by scholars in Baghdad.
   Answer: Astronomy
12. Which long trade route carried silk, spices and ideas between Asia and Europe? (The Great Wall / The Panama Canal / The Royal Mile / The Silk Road)
   Answer: The Silk Road
13. Trade in the Islamic world only moved goods, never ideas or knowledge.
   Answer: False
14. Which material, learned from China, was made in Baghdad and helped spread books? (Cotton cloth only / Paper / Plastic / Rubber)
   Answer: Paper
15. Which Moroccan-born traveller wrote about journeys across the Muslim world in the 1300s?
   Answer: Ibn Battuta
16. Roughly which years are often called the Islamic Golden Age? (AD 100 to 400 / AD 1500 to 1800 / AD 1900 to 2000 / AD 750 to 1250)
   Answer: AD 750 to 1250