What have ARABS contributed to the world?

Question

This is not a racist question. The western culture has contributed enormously in terms of science, medicine, exploration (like the discovery of the New World in 1492), music, art, and many other facets. The Asians have given un technology, and blacks like Nelson Mandela and the great Dr. Martin Luther King taugh us about liberty and acceptance (and the Hindi Mahatma Ghandi, as well). So, what have Arabic people contributed with? Thanks.

Answer 1

I have lived in ten different Arab countries and over twenty countries in general.Arab contributions to human civilisation was predominantly after the birth of Islam and Islamic empire that ensued. They established a fascinating architecture that went out of orbit and evolved individually in different parts of Europe and Asia. They also studied the sky extensively as they had an infinite penchant for sky and provided some very intricate maps of cosmos. Remember that they gave us decimal numbers and Algebra not least because when you create an empire, you must be able to control and to be able to control, you need very good asthmatics. Islamic civilizations were responsible for a lot of discoveries in medicine, chemistry and particularly astronomy; although in recent history western civilizations have come to dominate this realm while, at the same time and regrettably, Arab culture has become an angry culture mostly as a result of corrupt politicians and sectarian rivalries.

My very best wishes... Mohammad

Answer 2

Mathematics, Chemistry, Medicine, The Camera, Poetry, The concept of zero in mathematics, they produced Industrial Alcohol while we were still fighting the Vikings, they were successfully operating on people when we were still primitive enough to wrap pages from the bible around an infection. They gave us a lot more as well. Eurocentric thinking will get you into trouble, we did a lot of harm to the world, ask the Chinese what drug the Brits forced them to buy and consume at gunpoint. The Arabs have contributed a lot. The Dark Ages, after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire is a European thing, the rest of the world tried to advance, with the help of the Arabs.

Answer 3

Alcohol, some of the basic mathematical concepts beyond simple arithmatic (until the Crusades, Europe didn't really have a concept for the number "0," which kind of makes higher mathematics difficult under our current understanding of it... that's why they're called "arabic numerals" -- imagine if we were still stuck writing Roman numerals for everything), and they preserved the knowledge lost during the Dark Ages in Europe -- like plumbing. Their studies of astronomy allowed European scientists to advance in their exploration of the sky, and introduced a lot of terminology to the world's vocabulary, such as azimuth and zenith. While the Western world was scribbling on animal hides, scratching their heads and wondering what the ruins of the Roman aqueducts were for, the Spanish Moors and the sultunates of the Middle East had water gardens, complex architechture, advanced medical practice including some surgery, optics to rival even today's telescopes, and a vast trade network that spanned three continents.

Answer 4

The earliest civilizations in the world -

Messopotamia/ Sumer (modern day Iraq)
Egypt

We also say Arabic numerals, though it was not wholly confined to the Arab world ( the concept of zero came from India).


BTW, it is Hindu (religion) - Hindi id the language (and Mahatma Gandhi's mother tongue was Gujarati not Hindi)

Answer 5

Algebra, a sensible number system (unlike the ancient Roman and Greek number systems), the concept of zero.
And much more.

Answer 6

Maybe just the Two largest concepts of civilization. Centralized government and The concept of zero and basic algebra.

Answer 7

Nothing much, just astronomy, mathematics, optics, medicine, metallurgy, architecture, bathing, etc. etc. etc. I will concede that these contributions were centuries ago, and it sometimes seems that they have forgotten what they once had.

Answer 8

In the Yom Kippur War they helped prove they can gang up on Israel and still get their asses handed to them.

Answer 9

Cheese, turbans, fast horses, and terrorism

Answer 10

gas stations lol i dont know