Ancient discovery or mystery , Roman civilization ,Legacy, How Baghdad Shaped the World After Its Fall

Baghdad's power faded, but its influence did not. When armies moved on and trade routes shifted, the megacity desisted to command home, yet it continued to govern imagination. What survived was n't slipup and mortar, but system, memory, and habit. Scholars carried Baghdad with them in the perimeters of books, in the structure of arguments, in the meter of language. merchandisers carried it in contracts and account practices. preceptors carried it in classes shaped by centuries of debate. The megacity no longer stood at the center of the world, but it had formerly planted the world with its ideas.