What is the theme of the video?
Which great inventor do you think was the most important?
Why?
(n) a strong effect
(n) the ideas that other things are based on
(adj) new and very clever
(n) a group of people with their own society and culture
Why is the period after 500 AD known as the dark ages?
Why do some historians think that this name is not suitable?
What are two reasons many historians think the period should be called the golden ages?
Who made discoveries about engineering.
Who had early ideas about flying.
Who explained how our eyes work.
What modern technology may have benefited from the work of Al-Jazari?
What modern technology may have benefited from the work of Ibn al-Haytham?
What modern technology may have benefited from the work of Abbas ibn Firnas?