Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Muslim creations base for the comfort of today...

World Zone Highlights


A major breakthrough in communications occurred in Baghdad under the ‘Abbasid Caliphs.
Carrier pigeons were used as a postal service. It is mentioned in a book that at one time there would be about 1,900 pigeons in the lofts of the citadel in Cairo, which was the communication nerve centre at the time.


Piri Re’is, a Turkish captain, created a map in 1513 which has come to be known as the famous ‘Map of America’.
This astonishing map clearly shows Antarctica, as well as the Andes Mountains of South America. Both of these were ‘first seen’ years after this map was created in 1513.


Zheng He was a Muslim who helped transform China into the regional superpower of his time.
Within 28 years of travel, he visited 37 countries in the course of seven monumental sea voyagers. Zheng He sailed throughout the Indian Ocean decades before Christopher Columbus or Vasco de Gama and with ships five times bigger.
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