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Greek Thought, Arabic Culture: The Graeco-Arabic Translation Movement in Baghdad and Early 'Abbasaid Society (2nd-4th 5th-10th c.) (Arabic Thought & Culture) Dimitri Gutas
Publisher: Routledge

1258, The Mongols sack Baghdad, ending the Abbasid caliphate. 678, A Muslim blockade of Constantinople fails; the Byzantines and Arabs establish a truce. 2,500,000 5000 B.C., The Yang-shao and Lung-shan cultures are established in China by this time. Archaeological exploration done in the 20th century suggests that the geographical area of Afghanistan has been closely connected by the culture of and trade with neighboring regions to the east, west, and north. Since ancient times the region has been crisscrossed by invaders, including Persians, Macedonians, Arabs, Turks, and Mongols. Later Much of it soon broke away from the Greco-Bactrians and became part of the Indo-Greek Kingdom. 1450 B.C., The Minoan civilization on Crete is overrun by invaders from the Greek mainland. 500 B.C.) conquered these areas. More than half a million Greeks .. The Graeco-Arabic Translation Movement in Baghdad and Early Abbasid Society (2nd - 4th/8th - 10th centuries). Certainly cultures had flourished in the north and east before the Persian king Darius I (c. The Indo-Greeks were defeated and expelled by the Indo-Scythians in the late 2nd century BCE. 5,500,000 B.C., Australopithecus, the earliest true hominid, is active in Africa about this time. In the early 19th century, Afghan politicians decided to adopt the name Afghanistan for the entire Afghan Empire after its English translation had already appeared in various treaties with Qajarid Persia and British India. Early Civilization and Literacy in Europe. 0.1 million) have maintained their native language to a high degree while, in southern Russia and Ukraine, the Greeks have largely assimilated into their linguistic and cultural environment.