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3 10, 2017

Science in Islamic Africa – medieval African science

By |2019-08-21T09:21:51-07:00October 3rd, 2017|Africa|Comments Off on Science in Islamic Africa – medieval African science

Medieval African science: The walls of Timbuktu, in Mali, West Africa Medieval African science In the 700s AD, the Islamic Empire conquered North Africa and began to trade a lot with East Africa. Islamic government did [...]

3 10, 2017

Islamic North Africa – caravans across the Sahara

By |2019-08-21T09:31:54-07:00October 3rd, 2017|Africa|Comments Off on Islamic North Africa – caravans across the Sahara

Islamic North Africa: Kairouan mosque (ca. 800 AD) The Eastern Roman reconquest of North Africa in the 530s AD ended the Vandal kingdom there. But trade declined until the Islamic invasions of North [...]

15 09, 2017

West Asian science – Mesopotamia and Iran

By |2019-09-04T05:49:39-07:00September 15th, 2017|West Asia|Comments Off on West Asian science – Mesopotamia and Iran

The constellation Orion What did Mesopotamians invent? From the Stone Age through the Islamic empires, great scientific discoveries have streamed out of West Asia. West Asia is one of the places where farming got started, [...]

15 09, 2017

Zoroastrianism – Iran – West Asian religion

By |2019-09-04T05:58:45-07:00September 15th, 2017|West Asia|Comments Off on Zoroastrianism – Iran – West Asian religion

An Iranian fire sacrifice Zoroaster/Zarathustra himself Around 1000 BC (probably), about the same time that people in India were writing the Rig Veda, a man named Zoroaster (also called Zarathustra) was a priest in a small [...]

15 09, 2017

West Asian people – families, schools, slavery

By |2019-09-04T07:31:22-07:00September 15th, 2017|West Asia|Comments Off on West Asian people – families, schools, slavery

West Asian people: Ur-Nanshe, the king's chief musician in Mari, 2400s BC Oppression of women What we notice most about the way people lived in West Asia is the widespread [...]

11 09, 2017

Parthian and Sassanid architecture – West Asia

By |2019-09-05T06:00:43-07:00September 11th, 2017|West Asia|Comments Off on Parthian and Sassanid architecture – West Asia

Parthian architecture - the so-called Arch of Sapor - Parthians - Ctesiphon, Iraq, probably about 500 AD Romans and Parthians About 100 BC, the Hellenistic Greek kingdoms gave way to [...]

11 09, 2017

West Asian religion – Ottoman and Safavid, Sunni and Shiite

By |2019-09-05T06:34:36-07:00September 11th, 2017|West Asia|Comments Off on West Asian religion – Ottoman and Safavid, Sunni and Shiite

Shah Mosque, Ishfahan, Iran (1611-38) West Asia was divided into two big empires in the 1500s AD - the Ottoman Empire and the Safavid Empire. Both the Ottomans and the Safavids followed Islam, but they followed two different kinds of [...]

10 09, 2017

Early medieval world history timeline: 400-800 AD

By |2019-05-19T21:05:14-07:00September 10th, 2017|History, Islam, When|Comments Off on Early medieval world history timeline: 400-800 AD

Early medieval timeline: Dome of the Rock mosque, Jerusalem (600s AD)  Europe in the Early Middle Ages In the Early Middle Ages, many empires around the world collapsed into smaller [...]

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