"Apart from oil - which was discovered, is produced and is paid for by the West - what do they contribute?"
...actually, it seems Arabs were using oil at least as far back as the time of the crusades, although presumably not on a modern scale.
"algorithm" originally referred to the number system Europeans learmned from the Arabs, but the contemporary meaning of "algorithm" is quite different.
alcohol - strictly, distilling.
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Date: 2004-01-08 04:52 am (UTC)"algorithm" originally referred to the number system Europeans learmned from the Arabs, but the contemporary meaning of "algorithm" is quite different.
alcohol - strictly, distilling.