The University of Al-Karaouine, founded by a Muslim woman, becomes the world's first university
Over the centuries, the University of Al-Karaouine became a key spiritual and educational center in the Muslim world.
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The city of Bukhara in modern-day Uzbekistan becomes a major trade and intellectual center of the Muslim world
Bukhoro became one of the leading centers of learning, culture, and art in the Muslim world, its magnificence rivaling contemporaneous cultural centers such as Baghdad, Cairo, and Cordoba.
Humans create the world’s first formal school
Though the exact date and location of the world’s first formal educational institution are likely lost to time, the first schools likely popped up in several places in the 2nd, 3rd, and perhaps 4th Millennia B.C.E., including Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, and China.