A Significant Factor in Creating a Powerful Abbasid Culture Was

question 4

Multiple Choice

A significant factor in creating a powerful Abbasid culture was the

• A) introduction of paper from China.
• B) uniform adoption of the Arabic language throughout the region, as Latin had been in the Roman Empire.
• C) introduction of new dyes from the East for making ink.
• D) the creation of a formal alphabet in the vernacular Arabic language.
• E) use of organized crews of scribes called mamluks.

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