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Answer: Hammurabi ↔ Babylon, Khufu ↔ Ancient Egypt, Julius Caesar ↔ Rome, Cyrus the Great ↔ Persia
💡 Hammurabi was famous for his written code of laws, the Great Pyramid was built for Khufu, Caesar was one of Rome's most famous leaders, and Cyrus founded the Persian Empire.
Answer: The Colosseum ↔ The Romans, The Parthenon ↔ The Greeks, The ziggurat ↔ Mesopotamia, The Abu Simbel temple ↔ The ancient Egyptians
💡 The Colosseum is a huge Roman amphitheater, the Parthenon is a temple in Athens, the ziggurat is a stepped temple in Iraq, and Abu Simbel was built by Ramses II in southern Egypt.
Answer: Al-Khwarizmi ↔ Algebra, Ibn al-Haytham ↔ Optics, Al-Idrisi ↔ Geography and mapmaking, Az-Zahrawi ↔ Surgery
💡 Al-Khwarizmi wrote the first book on algebra, and az-Zahrawi described many surgical instruments, which he drew himself, in his encyclopedia "At-Tasrif."
Answer: Cuneiform writing, then Paper in China, then Gutenberg's printing press, then The light bulb
💡 Cuneiform appeared more than 5,000 years ago, paper about two thousand years ago, Gutenberg's press in the 15th century, and the light bulb in the 19th century.
Answer: Al-Khwarizmi, then Ibn Sina, then Al-Idrisi, then Ibn Khaldun
💡 Al-Khwarizmi lived in the 9th century CE, Ibn Sina in the 10th and 11th centuries, al-Idrisi in the 12th century, and Ibn Khaldun in the 14th century.
Answer: Building the Great Pyramid of Giza, then Hammurabi's rule over Babylon, then The founding of Alexandria, then The destruction of Pompeii by a volcano
💡 The Great Pyramid was built about 4,500 years ago, Hammurabi ruled about 3,700 years ago, Alexandria was founded in the 4th century BCE, and Pompeii was destroyed in 79 CE.
Answer: Writing "The Book of Optics", Studying light and how vision works
💡 In "The Book of Optics," Ibn al-Haytham showed that the eye sees by light coming from objects to it, and he used experimentation as his method, so he is considered the pioneer of optics.
Answer: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle
💡 Socrates taught Plato, and Plato taught Aristotle, while Julius Caesar was a Roman leader and Ramses II an Egyptian pharaoh.
Answer: The Great Pyramid of Giza, The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, The Lighthouse of Alexandria
💡 The Great Pyramid is the only one of the seven ancient wonders still standing. The Great Wall of China was not on that list, and the Eiffel Tower is modern.
Answer: The Sumerians, The Babylonians, The Assyrians
💡 The Sumerians, Babylonians, and Assyrians followed one another in the land of Iraq, while the Nabataeans were in the north of the Arabian Peninsula and the Greeks in Greece.
Answer: Ibn Sina, Az-Zahrawi, Ar-Razi
💡 Ibn Sina and ar-Razi are leading figures in medicine, and az-Zahrawi was a pioneer of surgery, while al-Khwarizmi was a mathematician and al-Idrisi a geographer.
Answer: Paper, The compass, Gunpowder
💡 The Chinese invented paper, the compass, and gunpowder many centuries before the telephone and the light bulb, which appeared in the 19th century.
Answer: False ✖
💡 The Silk Road was mainly a network of land routes crossed by caravans across Asia, though it had sea extensions as well.
Answer: True ✔
💡 Al-Idrisi worked at the court of Roger II and wrote the book "Nuzhat al-Mushtaq" along with a map of the known world of his time.
Answer: False ✖
💡 The Greeks spoke Greek, while Latin was the language of the Romans, and languages such as Italian, Spanish, and French branched off from it.
Answer: True ✔
💡 Papermaking moved from China to Samarkand in the 8th century CE, then spread to Baghdad and from there to the rest of the Islamic world and Europe.
Answer: True ✔
💡 At Hegra, the Nabataeans carved huge tomb facades decorated with carvings, and their inscriptions are still visible on some of them.
Answer: False ✖
💡 The author of "The Muqaddimah" is Ibn Khaldun, who explained in it why states rise and fall and the nature of societies.
Answer: False ✖
💡 Cuneiform was invented by the Sumerians in Mesopotamia. They pressed reed pens into clay tablets, leaving wedge-shaped symbols.
Answer: True ✔
💡 The Egyptians built most of their tombs west of the Nile, where the sun sets, because they linked the west with the world of the dead.
