Western Civilization I / Unit 18 WC1 1728 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Join: The Classical Inheritance Three Times
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The idea
Rome took Greek art, Stoicism and rhetoric; the Abbasids translated Aristotle and advanced him; Europe got Aristotle back through Arabic and Hebrew for scholasticism; the Renaissance reread Cicero and Plato for humanism; the Scientific Revolution finally threw Aristotle out.
In practice
Entries 0514, 0833, 1030, 1215 and 1621.
Where people slip
Three transmissions, one rejection. The exam tests the route.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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