Latin Europe regained some of the "lost knowledge" of the Greek and Arab world when works by Plato and Aristotle came into the Latin West through:
a. the recapture of northern Germany from the Huns.
b. the recapture of southern Italy from the Byzantines and of Sicily and Toledo from the Muslims.
c. contact with the court of Khubilai Khan.
d. the discovery of the remains of the Library of Alexandria.
e. the lively trade in classical antiquities.
ANSWER:
b
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