How would you drscribe the growth of European universites between 1100 and 1500?

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Explain...

Answer 1

As Europe emerged from the dark ages, many of the universities had been destroyed by religious violence, and entire libraries of ancient knowledge had been burned and banned. The Moslem universities however had held on to these records of the ancient world, and the books and documents came to be redistributed to the rest of Europe. Without the Moslems and the Jesuits (who also preserved knowledge in defiance of the repressive Holy Roman Church)

the western world would know nothing of Ancient Greece, or Algebra... of so many things that are the basis of our civilization.

This is now a matter of historical record, and is a good indicator of why religion, when it becomes politically powerful and based on fear, can destroy progress.