golden age of islam

• • the conquest and prosperity of the abbasid caliphate started the golden age of islam
• • muslim scholars perserved ancient greek and roman texts & also innovated
• • the conquest of the abbasid had connected a network of scholars and merchants, spreading ideas quickly acorss vast distances
• • important change in agriculture 
  • new forms of irrigation technology 
  • combined new methods to improve cultural outputs
  • huge territory of empires and trace links introduced new species of plants and animals
  • more in food
  • more trades
• • centered in Baghdad where the House of Wisdom was made