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Baghdad Translation Movement
Abbasid Baghdad translates Greek, Persian and Indian science into Arabic and builds on it, preserving and extending ancient knowledge.
Open in the interactive tree →From the late 8th century caliphs paid translators and the House of Wisdom became a centre of scholarship, though historians debate how large and formal it was. Cheap paper made copying easy, and scholars such as al-Khwarizmi worked in this tradition.
Prerequisites
- Libraries~650 BC
- Plato's Academy387 BC
- Paper~105 AD
Unlocks
- Hospitals~805
- Zero, Decimals & Algebra~820Al-Khwarizmi wrote in the scholarly world of Abbasid Baghdad
- Scientific Method~1600-1620Ibn al-Haytham's experimental optics grew from the Arabic science tradition
Not fully verified: Historians disagree on how large and institutional the House of Wisdom really was.
Sources
More in Foundations of Civilization · Middle Ages & Renaissance
- East Asian Printing868
- Universities1088
- Printing Press~1450
- Scientific Method~1600-1620
- Scientific Societies & Journals1665