What statement best explains how Greek and Roman learning was
preserved during the Middle Ages in Europe?
a. Monasteries saw it as their mission to copy all of the older texts
of the Greek and Roman philosophers.
b. The Roman Catholic Church maintained extensive libraries of
Greek and Roman works throughout Europe.
c. The works of Greek and Roman philosophers were preserved
by both the Byzantine and the Islamic civilizations.
d. The collapse in Western Europe was not so great as to cause a
shutdown of universities at the major population centers.