MAJOR ARAB ACHIEVEMENTS IN THE MIDDLE AGES

MAJOR ARAB ACHIEVEMENTS IN THE MIDDLE AGES
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The Arabs native soil stretches some 5,000 miles, almost twice the distance between New York and San Francisco from the Atlantic coast of northern Africa in the west to the Arabian Sea in the east and from the Mediterranean Sea in the north to Central Africa in the south and it covers an region of 5.25 million square miles thus by evaluation, the United States comprises 3.6 million square miles.
With 72% of its terrain in Africa and 28% in Asia, the Arab world overlaps two continents; a place that has made it one of the world's most tactical regions and long coastlines give it access to critical waterways, the Mediterranean Sea, the Atlantic Ocean, the Arabian Sea, the Gulf of Aden, the Arabian Gulf, the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean.
While the region is subjugated by dry climatic setting, the existence of mountain ranges allows seasonal rainfall and given the prevalence of arid conditions, dependable sources of water are enormously important, be they springs from which oases are formed, or rivers. Foremost among the river valleys are the Nile and the Tigris-Euphrates.
The perception of average population density has little meaning when applied to the Arab world and since significant human settlement is found only where water supplies are adequate thus the overwhelming majority of Arabs live in comparatively high concentrations along coastal areas and major river valleys and the most remarkable example of this observable fact is in Egypt where more than 90% of the population lives on less than 5% of the land.
Agriculture is the primary money-making activity in the Arab homeland and the most important food crops are wheat, barley, rice, maize, dates and millet thus these are largely consumed within the region, while cotton, sugarcane, sugar beets and sesame are exported as cash crops.
Contrary to popular belief that few Arab countries possess petroleum and natural gas resources and other natural resources include iron-ore, lead, phosphate, cobalt and manganese. It was in the Arab land that man first planned into a settled form of society and cultivating grain and raising livestock, instituting cities and promoting different skills and professions and in such a setting, rich and complex cultures were nourished; ancient Egypt, Assyria, Babylonia, Sumer and Phoenicia were great evolution, legends even in their own day thus whose traces continue to be concealed in archeological sites throughout the region.
Arab Achievements in the Field of Philosophy and Literature.
Merely in philosophy were Islamic scholars barred from putting forth unorthodox thoughts, however, Ibn Rushd and Persian polymath Avicenna played a key role in saving the mechanism of Aristotle, whose ideas came to take over the non-religious contemplation of the Christian and Muslim worlds. The Arabs/ Muslim would also attract ...