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When Baghdad, Not Europe, Was the World's Science Capital
While much of Europe was in its early medieval period, Baghdad's House of Wisdom housed roughly 400,000 books, employed a small army of translators, and gave the world the word "algebra." For nearly 200 years, it was arguably the single greatest concentration of scientific knowledge on the planet — until the Mongols destroyed it in 1258.
The Woman Who Founded the World's Oldest University
In 859 CE, a woman named Fatima al-Fihri spent her entire inheritance building a mosque in Fez, Morocco. It grew into the University of al-Qarawiyyin — recognized today by UNESCO and Guinness World Records as the oldest continuously operating, degree-granting university on Earth, still teaching students more than 1,160 years later.