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Dudes, there may have been places of learning before or places where sick people hung out. Our (American which means Western- excuse me if you're not) hospitals and universities come from Western ideals. Or, I don't think a monk got the idea to found Oxford or the University of Paris after visiting India (although the Western world got the zero from Inida via Arabs. The Mayans had the zero too, but we didn't get it from them). Pagan Romans or Greeks (much less barbarians) didn't really care for the sick.
What would have been can be a fun question, but I'm just stating the way it happened.
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