THE ISLAMIC GOLDEN AGE: THE CIVILIZATION THAT INVENTED THE MODERN WORLD
Episode 15 | Human History — Civilizations & Empires
In this History episode we focus on the Islamic Golden Age — the 450 years from 800 to 1258 AD when the Islamic world was the center of global intellectual life, inventing algebra, articulating the scientific method, and preserving Greek knowledge when Europe had lost it and extending it far beyond what the Greeks had done.
This episode covers the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, al-Khwarizmi and the invention of algebra, Ibn al-Haytham's Book of Optics and the scientific method 600 years before Francis Bacon, Ibn Sina's Canon of Medicine as the…
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