What the Ancients Did for Us Islamic Civilization 1/7 - انجازات المسلمين

The rise of Islam is one of the most important events in world history. In the 7th century, Mohammed's intention was to unite the divided Arabs through a new religion. A century after his death, he'd succeeded in producing a medieval superpower. The Arabs and Moors had spread through Spain towards the Pyrenees. Cordoba became renowned as one of the greatest and wealthiest cities in Europe. Moorish cities such as Toledo and Seville were famed for their new culture and universities.

The first What The Ancients Did For Us program explores the Muslim contribution to the western world - in art, architecture, astronomy, medicine, science, and learning.

The early Muslims are credited with inventing distillation and could distill just about anything - from alcohol to perfume. Hygiene is very important in the Muslim world so they invented and manufactured soap - centuries before the West - and hundreds of bathhouses were built throughout Muslim cities. They understood the fundamentals of light and how we see, and gave us the camera obscure. They invented algebra and worked out the angle of the tilt of the earth. They built the first windmill, pioneered the concept of the crank rod, and designed the first ever torpedo. Muslim creativity also led to the invention of a unique instrument called the astrolabe -- it could find the direction of Mecca, tell the time and, with the help of the stars, navigate you across deserts and oceans. But perhaps most important of all they pursued the cause of knowledge, translating and preserving the works of the ancients and building the world's largest libraries -- their 'houses of wisdom'.

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[DONALHOUTI]

Why does most Europeans looks like neanderthal ??

[luftwaffe789456123]

@NWA90s lol if you say Germans are Nazis you ware like saying Christians are Pagan.....before people thought Christian worshippers are Pagan.

[NWA90s]

@luftwaffe789456123 i was just giving you a example on how you were stereotyping Arabs. so would it be fair for an Arab to say Germans are nazis?

[luftwaffe789456123]

@NWA90s really? i am not even American and never in my life i have watched a news in FOX News!!! i don't watch American news because its full of crap and propaganda.

[NWA90s]

@luftwaffe789456123 your amazed over him believing wikipedia, but im amazed over seeing such propaganda from you. seriously where did you get all those statements from? this is something they tell you on fox news

[NWA90s]

@SecretGarden1963 and another thing, muslim arent united anymore like they used to be and please stop using stereotypes. would it be fair to say all Americans look like fat, lazy and dumb gorillas?

[NWA90s]

@adamsmith2011 faithfreedom is a anti islamic site, dont get fooled by its name. when you list your sources you want them to be neutral and not one sided like yours, and where did you get the 72 virgin bullshit? it proves how little you know about islam and how much you visit those anti islamic sites that claim islam will takeover europe and put sharia law there

[NWA90s]

@SecretGarden1963 because the islamic golden age lasted over a thousand years, and everything that has a beginning has an end. your logic is flawed. past does not equal future, by your logic the british empire should still have ruled india, america and africa

[Cable3999]

@SecretGarden1963 The Europeans discovered a new route to Asia and new lands (the Americas) to exploit. This led to a drastic power decline in the Middle East.