| A | B |
| Social Mobility | The ability to move up in social class |
| Firdawsi | Arabic poet, wrote Shah Namah (Book of Kings) |
| Omar Khayyam | Famous Muslim scholar and astronomer |
| Calligraphy | The art of beautiful handwriting |
| Ibn Rushd | Philosopher known to have put all knowledge except the Quran to the test of reason |
| Ibn Khaldum | An Arab thinker who set the standards for the scientific study of history |
| Muhammed al-Razi | Head physician at Baghdad's chief hospital |
| Ibn Sina | Persian doctor wrote Canon on Medicine |
| al-Khwarizmi | Great Muslim mathematician, pioneered the study of algebra |