HISTORY
MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN EUROPE
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Question
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Preserving Christian writings, Roman and Greek works
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Preserving mosaics
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Preserving the Magna Carta
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Preserving Asian and African writings
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Detailed explanation-1: -Monasteries encouraged literacy, promoted learning, and preserved the classics of ancient literature, including the works of Cicero, Virgil, Ovid, and Aristotle.
Detailed explanation-2: -Christianity became the dominant religion in Europe through the work of monks, who lived in religious communities known as monasteries and acted as missionaries to convert local pagan tribes.
Detailed explanation-3: -Monasteries were also important centres of learning which educated the young, and, perhaps most significantly for today’s historians, laboriously produced books and preserved ancient texts which have greatly enhanced our knowledge of not only the medieval world but also classical antiquity.
Detailed explanation-4: -What role did monks and monasteries play in the early Catholic Church? They represented the highest ideal of christian life, and were social workers, and educators.
Detailed explanation-5: -Answer and Explanation: Medieval monks copied ancient manuscripts and kept them preserved in various libraries and museums. In this way, a good deal of the literature and history from ancient Greece and Rome was preserved.