Global 9.4 Learning and Culture Flourish

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 * During this period of time, Universities began to spring up around Europe. Going to a university meant that a boy could hope to get a job in the Church or in a part of the royal government.
 * With the translation of many Greek texts, the philosophy of the ancient Greeks was introduced to many European universities.
 * This led to a problem between following the ideas of logic presented by Aristotle and following Scripture based on faith. Scholasticism was a response by many Christian scholars who tried to resolve this conflict by using logic and reason to support their Christian beliefs.
 * Thomas Aquinas was a Scholastic that wrote a book called Summa Theologica,in which he proclaimed that faith and reason lead to the same truth and therefore complimented each other.
 * Despite the fact that Europe received many works that taught advanced math and science, Christian scholars believed that all truth must reflect Church teachings, and so very few scientific advancements were made during this period.
 * Europeans did make a shift from Roman numerals to Arabic numerals, making mathematics much easier.
 * Despite the continued use of Latin as the language of the educated, many writers began to write in the "vernacular," the everyday language of the people. These works were often tales of heroic Christians fighting against the Muslims.
 * "The Divine Comedy"- Dante Alighieri
 * The Cantebury Tales- Geoffry Chauncer
 * The style of building churches changed during the Middle Ages, from dimly lit Romanesque to massive, soaring architecture known as the "Gothic style."