The Islamic Golden Age

Worksheet: The Islamic Golden Age

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Answer the questions.

1. In which city was the famous House of Wisdom?
   a) Athensb) Baghdadc) Cairod) Rome
2. What was the House of Wisdom mainly used for?
   a) Building shipsb) Storing grainc) Training soldiersd) Translating and studying books
3. Scholars at the House of Wisdom translated Greek books into Arabic.
   a) Trueb) False
4. Which ruling family founded Baghdad in AD 762?
   a) The Abbasidsb) The Ottomansc) The Romansd) The Vikings
5. The word 'algebra' comes from a book by which scholar?
   a) Al-Haythamb) Al-Khwarizmic) Ibn Battutad) Ibn Sina
6. Which number system, spread by Arab scholars, do we use today?
   a) Egyptian hieroglyphsb) Hindu-Arabic numeralsc) Roman numeralsd) Tally marks
7. Which important number, meaning 'nothing', helped make Arabic numerals so useful?
8. Ibn Sina wrote a huge medical book called what?
   a) The Book of Algebrab) The Book of Kingsc) The Canon of Medicined) The Great Atlas
9. Medieval Muslim cities built hospitals where patients were treated by trained doctors.
   a) Trueb) False
10. Which instrument did Muslim astronomers use to find time, direction and star positions?
    a) The astrolabeb) The barometerc) The sundial clockd) The telescope camera
11. Name the science of studying stars and planets that was advanced by scholars in Baghdad.
12. Which long trade route carried silk, spices and ideas between Asia and Europe?
    a) The Great Wallb) The Panama Canalc) The Royal Miled) The Silk Road
13. Trade in the Islamic world only moved goods, never ideas or knowledge.
    a) Trueb) False
14. Which material, learned from China, was made in Baghdad and helped spread books?
    a) Cotton cloth onlyb) Paperc) Plasticd) Rubber
15. Which Moroccan-born traveller wrote about journeys across the Muslim world in the 1300s?
16. Roughly which years are often called the Islamic Golden Age?
    a) AD 100 to 400b) AD 1500 to 1800c) AD 1900 to 2000d) AD 750 to 1250