They invented algebra and the number zero...masters of horse and camel breeding...and archery. They may have invented stucco, but probably not. they may have perfected the modern use and cultivation of coffee and tobacco.
I think that pretty much covers it.
Yea right. I read that crap too. Next their gonna tell us they invented space.
"masters of horse and camel breeding...and archery"
And none of that went on before them? Dahhh.
For the amount of time these critters have been on the earth, they haven't accomplished much.
If they invented the number 0, they have stayed there since.
No they didn't; the Hindus did. The concepts reached the West by way of the Arabs, but they came from India.
Nope, nope and nope.
They may have done something with coffee but that history is not altogether clear.
But:
Tobacco is a plant that grows natively in North and South America. It is in the same family as the potato, pepper and the poisonous nightshade, a very deadly plant.
The seed of a tobacco plant is very small. A 1 ounce sample contains about 300,000 seeds!
It is believed that Tobacco began growing in the Americas about 6,000 B.C.!
As early as 1 B.C., American Indians began using tobacco in many different ways, such as in religious and medicinal practices.
Tobacco was believed to be a cure-all, and was used to dress wounds, as well as a pain killer. Chewing tobacco was believed to relieve the pain of a toothache!
The New World Discovered
On October 15, 1492, Christopher Columbus was offered dried tobacco leaves as a gift from the American Indians that he encountered.
http://academic.udayton.edu/health/syllabi/tobacco/history.htm
> They invented algebra and the number zero...
No they didn’t! They brought in Greek and Indian slaves. These slaves are the ones actually responsible for all the mathematics and science that the muslims claim as theirs.
The things Islam have been given credit for either are not true or if you read more about the individuals that done the work either flat out said they hated Islam or strongly implied it. As such people like Ibn al-Haytham were forced to live confined to his house for 20 years until he died.
Pretty much anything attributed to Islam that is useful or beautiful they stole from others. In the case of algebra, astronomy, zero, “arabic” numberals, medicine, architecture, horse breeding (don’t know about camels) and archery, and much more, were all very advanced in India many, many centuries before.
I’ll give them points for the invention of algebra and even the number zero, but the breeding of horses, camels and the use of tobacco and coffee just might have ‘evolved’ on their own, lol.
The Egyptians, Sumerians, and Babylonians were using simple Algebra well, well before Abu Bakr slaughtered Muhammad’s rival prophets across Bedhouin tribal lands. Islamic mathematics was a product of Muslim Spain and Persia, which were, themselves, products of cross-Mediterranean / Indian acculturation that began thousands of years before under Phoenician trading outposts and then, more systematically, under Roman and Sassanid (Persian) rule.
Islam’s spread to Spain reinvigorated Mediterranean exchange following the climatic and migration convulsions of the 6th century, which, themselves, had opened the way for Bedhouin unity under Muhammad’s rule. The breakdown of Roman rule in Italy and the weakening of Byzantium left power vaccuums across the Mediterranean region that Christianity and Islam filled, in the latter case, in Spain.
While lower Spain prospered under Islamic rule, the prosperity was of trade connections with the Mideast and not due to Islamic rule. The Italians followed next with their seizure of the northern trade routes, and they immediately adopted the trans-Mediterranean learning of Islamic Spain, the Ottomans, India, and the Roman and Greek remnants in both those regions and in Egypt.
The Islamic claim on scientific and mathematical advance is bogus since it was not dependent upon the religion.
“They invented algebra and the number zero...masters of horse and camel breeding...and archery. They may have invented stucco, but probably not. they may have perfected the modern use and cultivation of coffee and tobacco.”
Research has proven that algebra came from Assyrian Christians forced to convert to Islam (after what is modern day Iraq was over run by Arabs), and that the zero originated with India.
The Akhal-teke horse, a war horse much valued by ancient empires, is a breed nine thousand years old and originated with the Scythians (sometimes called the Turkmen horse). Most modern horse breeds, including Arabian and Thoroughbred race horses, originated from Akhal-teke horses.
Archery existed almost everywhere in the ancient world. As to Arabs being masters of archery, so are a helluva lot of other people.
Tobacco came from the western hemisphere, so I’m skeptical about Arabs perfecting it (one needs water to grow tobacco).
Coffee? Yeah, I’ll grant you they’ve done great with coffee. My favorite comes from Yemen, followed closely by Ethiopian coffee.
That was India. And the Maya.
masters of horse and camel breeding...and archery.
Maybe. they may have perfected the modern use and cultivation of coffee and tobacco.
Coffee maybe, tobacco no. That would have been the American Indians.
They did come up with irrigation. But not in the Saudi Desert area.