Posted By admin on February 5, 2010

Medieval Islamic

which of the following is the most important effect of islamic expansion on the civilization of medieval europ?

a)the influence of indian architecture on gothic cathedrals

b) the development of theocracies in the holy roman empire

c) the conversion of large areas of southern italy to islam

d) the transmittal of greek and arab learning

e)the promotion of religious reform movements in the catholic church

D.

[In the Middle Ages] "the universities of Alcuin and Charlemagne evidenced a cultural resurgence in the west; but there was nothing to match the great cultural flowering under the Abbasid Caliphate in Baghdad. Here Greek, Jewish and Arab scholars co-operated to preserve the great works of antiquity and to advance the disciplines of medicine, chemistry and astronomy. Medieval Islam (and to some degree the vestiges of Byzantine classicism) created a repository that periodically illuminated European thought, most notably when Crusaders came into contact with the sophistication of the east; or later, when the Italian Renaissance produced a revival of interest in the Classical past and an outburst of scientific curiosity that had to look back to the 2nd Century medicine of Galen and the cosmology of Ptolemy."

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