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Islamic Golden Age (750-1258 AD)

Under the Abbasid Caliphate, Baghdad birthed algebra (Al-Khwarizmi), optics (Ibn al-Haytham), and Avicenna's Canon of Medicine, a 1-million-word encyclopedia used for 600 years. Without this transmission, the Scientific Revolution would have been delayed centuries.

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