How was Europe's success linked to its contacts with Byzantine and Muslim neighbors?
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER:
Students should come to the conclusion that the revival of Latin cities and intellectual life came in large part through contact with these two great civilizations. The Byzantine and Muslim Empires remained more advanced in many ways than the Latin West; however, the Latin West revived its civilization in large part through trade, the Crusades, and even through the remains of Muslim control in Spain. The importance of the Silk Road and other sea-based trade routes from the East cannot be overstated, since they brought technology, commerce, products, and even epidemics to the Latin West. This Eastern-based commerce revived the urban economies of the Latin West. The Black Death, brought into Europe from China, also in the long run provided economic recovery and the decline of feudalism. In addition, the intellectual contributions of these empires were important to the growth of the Renaissance. Islamic science, medicine, astronomy, and botany as well as the preservation of classical texts were the foundation of the era's intellectual revival.
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