What are some major islamic influences on western civilization?

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I need to know at least two major influences Islam had on Western Civilization and why they are important to the United States.
 
They preserved Ancient Greek and Roman Literature while Europe went through the Dark Ages and the church tried to burn everything, and at the time were actually the bright scientific minds of the world.

Avicenna improved upon earlier knowledge of human anatomy (he was a muslim).
 
Not to be offensive of anything, but 9/11. It changed security and international relations irrevocably.
 
people tend to focus on the bad, so ppl who dont kno a lot about Islam tend to focus on people like bin Laden, Hussein, and events like 9/11. no way am I saying Muslims are bad, but just that that is probably what some major influences are b/c most ppl dont kno all that much about Islam in general. these people and the terrorist events are important to the U.S. b/c 9/11 was a HUGE terrorist attack. it caused the war in iraq and afghanistan.
 
Muslims stored many books of the ancient greeks (and similar important but non-christian books) in a time when all copies in Europe were burned by Christians.

Later these books were retranslated to their original languages. They were essential to the beginning of the tradition of Universities. And universities matter.
 
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