Across
- 5. used guitar, violin, flute, drum
- 9. "al jabr", using x, y, or z in place of numbers to solve complex math problems
- 12. Arabian horses were bred to play the game and it spread to Europe
- 13. to end confusion of all the types of currencies used
- 14. art of elegant handwriting
- 16. allowed agriculture throughout the Islamic Empire
- 17. captured Chinese soldiers taught their captors how to make paper and books
Down
- 1. Muslim scholars used this instead of logic
- 2. library, academy and translation center in Baghdad
- 3. created the astrolabe
- 4. medicines sedatives and antiseptics
- 6. center of learning where clerks hand copied books and the Qur'an
- 7. imported from India, Caliphs invited people to play matches at their palaces
- 8. due to the Muslim belief that human images would distract from worship of Allah
- 10. to promote health, cure diseases, expand medical knowledge
- 11. now the capital of Iraq
- 15. study of animals