The 'pointed' (or Gothic) arch was first used by the Assyrians, Angry.
As for point number two, 'Qamara' may be the Arabic word for room, but the word came to english from the Greek word 'kamara' with the same meaning. I don't know how you can determine which word is the older of the two.
As for Galileo, don't make the mistake of thinking that he was the first westerner to think the world was round. Indian thinkers in the 7th century BC wrote on the daily rotation of a spherical earth, as did the Greeks 400 years later.
Copernicus was one of the first astronomers to write on the topic in the 15th century. Galileo's real claim to fame was the development of the telescope and advancing astronomy, not so much his contention that the earth was round and orbited the sun.
The 'pointed' (or Gothic) arch was first used by the Assyrians, Angry.
As for point number two, 'Qamara' may be the Arabic word for room, but the word came to english from the Greek word 'kamara' with the same meaning. I don't know how you can determine which word is the older of the two.
As for Galileo, don't make the mistake of thinking that he was the first westerner to think the world was round. Indian thinkers in the 7th century BC wrote on the daily rotation of a spherical earth, as did the Greeks 400 years later.
Copernicus was one of the first astronomers to write on the topic in the 15th century. Galileo's real claim to fame was the development of the telescope and advancing astronomy, not so much his contention that the earth was round and orbited the sun.