It was only in the second half of the 20th century that the term came to be used with any frequency, now mostly referring to the cultural flourishing of science and mathematics under the caliphates during the 9th to 11th centuries (between the establishment of organised scholarship in the House of Wisdom and the beginning of the crusades), but often extended to include part of the late 8th or the 12th to early 13th centuries. ĭuring the early 20th century, the term was used only occasionally and often referred to as the early military successes of the Rashidun caliphs. Thus, one 19th century author would have it extend to the duration of the caliphate, or to "six and a half centuries", while another would have it end after only a few decades of Rashidun conquests, with the death of Umar and the First Fitna. There is no unambiguous definition of the term, and depending on whether it is used with a focus on cultural or on military achievement, it may be taken to refer to rather disparate time spans. The author of a Handbook for Travelers in Syria and Palestine in 1868 observed that the most beautiful mosques of Damascus were "like Mohammedanism itself, now rapidly decaying" and relics of "the golden age of Islam". The metaphor of a golden age began to be applied in 19th-century literature about Islamic history, in the context of the western aesthetic fashion known as Orientalism. (The medieval period of Islam is very similar if not the same, with one source defining it as 900–1300 CE.) Įxpansion during the Umayyad Caliphate, 661–750 A few scholars date the end of the golden age around 1350 linking with the Timurid Renaissance, while several modern historians and scholars place the end of the Islamic Golden Age as late as the end of 15th to 16th centuries meeting with the Age of the Islamic Gunpowders. The period is traditionally said to have ended with the collapse of the Abbasid caliphate due to Mongol invasions and the Siege of Baghdad in 1258. This period is traditionally understood to have begun during the reign of the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid (786 to 809) with the inauguration of the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, the world's largest city by then, where Islamic scholars and polymaths from various parts of the world with different cultural backgrounds were mandated to gather and translate all of the known world's classical knowledge into Syriac and Arabic. The Islamic Golden Age ( Arabic: العصر الذهبي للإسلام, romanized: al-'asr al-dhahabi lil-islam) was a period of cultural, economic, and scientific flourishing in the history of Islam, traditionally dated from the 8th century to the 14th century. I do not think I have had this much fun with a computer game in a very long time.Improvements to the astrolabe were one scientific achievement of the Golden Age. It is more fun, better balanced and the level of unfair and frustrating stuff is minimal compared to SC2. Nothing like this in Age of Empires.Īge of Empires II is actually a better RTS than SC2. In SC2 if you dodge a mine drop half a second too late the game is over. Games are decided by 100 of small decisions instead of a single mistake that makes you lose the game in half a second.There are cheese, but the balance between defending cheese and executing the cheese is much better. There are nothing like mass Carrier, blink DTs, void rays proxies etc. You can not even compare this to Blizzard who does not care at all about SC2 any more. The game is much better supported with new consent, balance patches and active devs.The game is a bit slower and more strategical and rewards being intelligent instead of just clicking faster than your opponent.Resource collection is much more interesting and fun compared to SC2.The game is more popular then ever and is the most popular RTS game on steam.I really recommend it if you look for another RTS instead of just SC2. And the game has been improved a lot! With the enhanced graphics pack it looks beautiful! The number of civs, the balance, the interface, the hotkey configuration everything is much improved. Now I have bought the Age of Empires 2 Definitive addition. I used to play Age of Empires 2 a lot a long time ago.
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