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1、阿拉伯人对世界文化的贡献（Arabcontributionstoworldculture）TheArabs'contributionstoworldculturearemainlysummedupin:First,preservationanddisseminationofancientculture.InthelongtroubledWestRomeEmpireandinGreece,Rome,manyclassicalworksdestroyedloss,partoftheByzantineEmpiresprea
2、dtoArabia.ScholarsinArabiastudiedthemcarefullyandtranslatedmanyancientworksintoarabic.WesternEuropeanslaterrerecognizedtheculturalachievementsofGreeceandRomethroughArabictranslations.Second,theArabsspreadacrossAsia,Europe,Africaandotherthreecontinentsandbecomet
3、hemediumofcommunicationbetweentheEastandthewest.TheyintroducedancientIndiaandChineseculturalachievementstothewest,andspreadthescientificachievementsofArabiaandIslamtotheeast.Third,theArabsarenotonlygoodatabsorbingothercultures,andthefoundationisstillstudyingond
4、evelopmentinmathematics,astronomy,medicine,physics,chemistry,literature,architecture,etc.,havemadegreatachievements.ThemainworksoftheArabs.OneofAristotle'stranslatedintoArabic,suchas"physics","ethics"and"tool",alsotranslatedPlaton's"Utopia",themathematicianEucl
5、id(4BCtothirdCenturyattheturnofthe"original"geometry),andArchimedes(287-212)etc.TheworkofmanypeopleTheestablishmentofArabiaEmpireandtheriseofArabiacultureAfterthecreationofIslaminAD610,MohamedestablishedatheocraticstateinMedina.Thecountryexpandedoutwardandsoonc
6、onqueredotherpartsoftheArabiapeninsula.BythetimeMohameddied623yearsago,thewholepeninsulahadbeenbasicallyunited.Mohamed'ssuccessorsbegantoexpandoutsidethepeninsulain634,andsuccessivelyconqueredSyria,Palestine,Iranandegypt.AtribeofUmayyadArabiaestablishedtheUmayy
7、adDynastyKhalifainDamascus(ChineseTangDynastyandaftertheTangDynastyhistoryknownasthe"whitewater").TheUmayyadDynastyKhalifaisarelativelyopeninthecultureofthedynasty,fromthebeginningtoacceptGreekculture.TheyrecruitedmanyscientiststoDamascusandsetupanobservatoryth
8、ereinAD700.Intheyear749,adevoutMuslimArabDynasty(ChineseSihalihairpostscripthistoryknownasthe"blackwater")insteadofGreecewillhavetheUmayyadDynastyKhalifa,basedinbaghdad.They
