What was the House of Wisdom in Baghdad?
a. The most important Islamic university
b. The palace of the Abbasid caliph
c. A school for Muslim preachers
d. A religious sanctuary used by imams
e. A library that contained works of Plato and Aristotle
e
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A. spatial perception test B. mental rotation test C. spatial visualization test D. mathematical test
What years did the civil war Take place? What years did the reconstruction after the civil war take place?
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The first millennium C.E. saw the rise of several sizable states in the western and central Sudan because of
a. settled agricultural populations and the expansion of trade. b. the failure of smaller trading stations such as Timbuktu. c. the decline of internal trade that promoted self-sufficiency. d. both the failure of smaller trading stations such as Timbuktu, and the decline of internal trade that promoted self-sufficiency.
What is true of the writing system of the Indus Valley society?
A. It dates back to the first millennium BCE. B. The script contains more than four hundred characters. C. Most of the symbols used were sacred or religious in some way. D. It is similar to writing forms in Mesopotamia. E. The primary purpose of writing was to record stories.