Victorious army problem
Now all this is mostly my own ideas, so I could be wrong. But see what you think: Sailors setting sail on a Greek warship I think that one important [...]
Now all this is mostly my own ideas, so I could be wrong. But see what you think: Sailors setting sail on a Greek warship I think that one important [...]
Medieval glass: Islamic glass (probably Iraq, 800s AD, now in the Metropolitan Museum, New York) Medieval glass-making By the 1100s, glass-making was expanding again from West Asia; there were glassworks further [...]
Early Roman pottery: Campanian pottery from southern Italy Roman pottery used molds Roman pottery began with Etruscan-style pottery, but soon developed a tradition of its own. What was Etruscan pottery like? More Ancient Rome [...]
Jews in the Islamic Empire: The synagogue where Maimonides worked in Cairo, Egypt (1100s AD) Did Jewish people help the Arab conquest? The Arabs first began to attack the Roman Empire in the 630s AD. [...]
Supernova from space (thanks to NASA and the Hubble Telescope) What is a supernova? Supernovas are exploding stars. Red giant stars explode when they have used up their hydrogen and helium fuel, and converted most of their atoms to iron [...]
Kids playing tetherball using centrifugal force Who first explained centrifugal force? When something is going straight, it always keeps going straight unless something else stops it or turns it. (The [...]
Roland blows his horn for help and tries to break his sword on a rock (Chartres Cathedral) As soon as the Moors had conquered Spain in 711 AD, the descendants of the Visigoths and the Romans [...]
Orange tree: medieval Islamic food included new sweet oranges What did medieval people eat? Around the Mediterranean, people continued in the Islamic period to rely on the three main foods from [...]
Bedouin tents today in the Arabian peninsula: Islamic environment Early medieval environment We can divide the environmental history of the medieval Islamic Empire into three different phases. The early phase, [...]
History of sugar: Sugar also has a lot of carbohydrates History of sugar in the Islamic Empire When the Abbasid army conquered northern India about 750 AD, the troops brought [...]