Question

How did exposure to ancient Greek and Roman culture help bring about the Islamic golden age?
A. It gave Muslims a culturally rich civilization upon which to build.
B. It inspired Muslims to send for scholars who were studying ancient Greece and Rome.
C. It enabled Muslims to establish trade connections with Greece and Rome.
D. It introduced Muslims to complex literary writings such as poetry and drama.
E. It showed Muslims political systems that strengthened the Islamic economy.

Answer 1

Answer:

A. It gave Muslims a culturally rich civilization upon which to build.

Reason :

The correct answer should be the option A. It gave Muslims a culturally rich civilization upon which to build.

They were interested in all cultures of the world and wanted to amass large quantities of data and scholarly books that could be translated to Arabic. It wasn't only Greek and Roman but from all over the world and it proved to be successful because the Arabs developed numerous things without which we couldn't live today. Most common example being the Arabic numerals.

Answer 2

A. It gave Muslims a culturally rich civilization upon which to build.

Explanation:

• The Islamic Golden Age began in the year 622 with the advent of Islam and the 1st Islamic state.
• The Arabs espoused the scientific knowledge of the civilisations which they had captured, comprising the ancient Roman, Greek, Chinese, Persian, Egyptian, Indian, and Phoenician civilisations. Scientists recovered the Greece’s  mathematical, astronomical and geometrical knowledge
• The works of Greek philosopher were translated into Syriac and then Arabic by Christians that had contributed immensely to the Arab-Islamic civilisation in the Abbasid and Ummayyad times. Scholarly works in Syrian and Greek languages was either newness introduced or continued throughout the Hellenistic period from the 4th to the 7th centuries.