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Dbq Islamic Achievements

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From 476 B.C.E., Islamics had been brewing up a culture that would greatly impact the modern world today. How they were able to do so relied greatly on their curiosity of subjects like math, science and literature, as well as their dying love for knowledge. These curiosities led to some of the greatest and wide spread inventions still being used today, like the math we are taught, our medical practices, literature and architecture.
Islam's achievements are nothing shy of brilliant, as in today's modern world we would never imagine a country in the days of B.C.E. ever having things such as paved streets, which consequently led to trading networks. Islam was a very developed country, as well as intelligent.
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However this all could not have been achieved without their access to libraries, book stores and public schools, which all thrived on their love for education.
Atop of the other valued achievements, Islam also developed and wrote on their medical theories. All of these achievements had to originate somewhere, whether it had been in the House of Wisdom or based solely on their standards of living these achievements all sprouted somewhere. Walking around on muddy streets just was not appealing to citizens of Islam, and collectively based on their high standards of living, they decided to create paved streets. While this idea may have sprouted from a general consensus, there were many other things that came about just out of general curiosity from individuals. If it had not been for the curiosity of Al-
Khwarizmi, we would not have the knowledge of algebra we have today. Many other things came about due to knowledge as well like translations of ancient texts, map making and astronomy. All of these achievements have come as far to last into the modern world. Many of the books written on medicine and math were translated into english so that we could use them to base modern medicine on them today. Much of the arts such as poetry and

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