. European history : an outline of its development. heRoman had been. Not long afterwards another dynasty,claiming descent from Ali himself and Fatima the daughterof Mohammed, established the independence of Abbassides changed the capital from Damascus toBagdad on the Tigris, and this city became speedily thecentre of a rich and brilliant civihzation which has left usan extremely interesting picture of itself in the ArabianNights. 152. Arabian Science.—In its influence upon the largerhistory of the world, the most important feature of thiscivilization was its scientific character. Fo
. European history : an outline of its development. heRoman had been. Not long afterwards another dynasty,claiming descent from Ali himself and Fatima the daughterof Mohammed, established the independence of Abbassides changed the capital from Damascus toBagdad on the Tigris, and this city became speedily thecentre of a rich and brilliant civihzation which has left usan extremely interesting picture of itself in the ArabianNights. 152. Arabian Science.—In its influence upon the largerhistory of the world, the most important feature of thiscivilization was its scientific character. For work of thiskind the early Mohammedan people seem to have had as § 152] Arabian Science 159 great a liking as the Greeks. From every ancient civiliza-tion with which they came in contact, they absorbed whatcould be learned, — Greek science, Persian philosophy, Hin-doo mathematics,— and these they wrought into a single bodyof scientific teaching. To what they had borrowed they madesome additions of their own, especially in astronomy, chem-. TOMB OF THE CALIPHS AT CAIRO istry, and mathematics, though their work in advancing The founda-science was less important than in transmitting it. For this *° °f , , , 1 , r • 1 ? modern the world owes them a great debt of gratitude. I he service the church and the Franks performed in handing onRoman institutions and law, the Mohammedans rendered to i6o The Franks, the Arabs, and the Papacy [§ i54 Decay of theAbbassides. The SeljukTurks. The earlyMerovingianconquestsrecovered. Greek and Oriental science, preserving it through the darkages as the foundation of modern science when the revivalof learning finally came. 153. The Coming in of the Turks.—The decline of thisbrilliant Mohammedan civilization was as rapid as its the East the Abbassid family fell into speedy decay hkethe Frankish Merovingians, whom they rivalled in crueltyand corruption. In the days of their greatness they hadbegun the introduc
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