Yep you're right. The ancient Greek and Latin texts were translated into other languages (in Spain I think) and then with the crusades and men like El Cid the translations were found in the cities libraries and translated for the western world. James Burke in his "Connections" series on TV describes what happened.
The job of translating so many books must have taken decades to accomplish.
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Originally Posted by ardeegee
Look a the links I posted. The science and philosophy of the ancient world that almost totally died out in Europe survived in the Islamic world, and was the bootstrap for the Renaissance.
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