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Anthropology

multigraincracker

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1. The Medieval Times were the Islamic Golden Age.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Mon Jul 12, 2021, 06:31 AM

Jul 2021

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Golden_Age

During this period, the Muslims showed a strong interest in assimilating the scientific knowledge of the civilizations that had been conquered. Many classic works of antiquity that might otherwise have been lost were translated from Greek, Syriac, Middle Persian, and Sanskrit into Syriac and Arabic, some of which were later in turn translated into other languages like Hebrew and Latin.[4]

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