Across
- 1. the common language and religion that helped the global exchange grow and thrive as more people converted to Islam
- 3. a network of trade routes
- 6. poet best known for crafting many rubaiyats
- 8. strictly banned the worship of idols
- 9. Persian physician who wrote the Canon on Medicine (past medical practices)
- 10. winds that carried Arab ships from East Africa to India and southeast Asia
- 13. the center of learning
- 15. the ability to move in social class
- 17. His writings on Aristotle were translated to latin and influenced christian scholastics in medieval Europe
- 18. muslim poet most famous for the Shah Namah
Down
- 1. Arab pharmacists were the first to mix bitter medicines into sweet-tasting syrups and gums.
- 2. arabic word for check
- 4. indian number system
- 5. created accounting
- 7. muslim mathematician that developed groundbreaking concepts related to Algebra
- 9. Arab thinker who established history and economics
- 11. al-Razi renowned muslim physician who pioneered the study of many diseases and had a book about measles and small pox
- 12. serve as community centers for the faithful
- 14. the art of producing beautiful handwriting
- 16. reintroduced knowledge of Greco-Roman civilization to later Europeans.
