The Abbasid Empire p 2

Learned more about the eclipse.

Observed Earth's rotation.

Invented new navigation tools.

Mathematics.

Philosophy.

Architecture "Art of building".

Story telling "Aladdin and his magic lamp, Ali baba and the forty thieves".

Poetry and Literature.

Medicine.

The Abbasid power started declining.

Caliph's power became limited.

Arab leaders lost control over vast lands of the Islamic Empire.

The Abbasid Caliph remained only as a figurehead.

By the year 1055 A.D, a Seljuk Turk sultan and other Turks settles in Baghdad and took over the reign.

Ibn Rushd: believed that everything should be proved through reason except for the Holy Quran.

Ibn Khaldoun: set the basis for scientific studies of history.