Architecture, art and music
Answers are for parents and teachers.
1
Choose a monument, draw it and write 3 sentences.
A personal answer: the Ismail Samani Mausoleum or the Kalon minaret.
2
Compare rammed earth, mud brick and baked brick.
Pakhsa — earth wall; mud brick — dried; baked brick — fired and stronger.
3
Sort the instruments into string, percussion and wind.
Oud, tanbur, qobuz, rubab, qanun — string; nay, surnay, karnay — wind.
4
Listen to one Shashmaqom piece (with an adult’s help) and write your impressions.
A personal answer.
5
For Chapter IV write a one-sentence summary for each of 8 scholars or writers.
For example: al-Khwarizmi — algebra; al-Farabi — philosophy; Ibn Sina — medicine; al-Biruni — astronomy; Kashgari — dictionary; Yusuf Khass Hajib — epic; Bukhari — hadith; Zamakhshari — grammar.