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I heard in class that the renaissance and scientific revolution happened when Greek and Latin works were "re-discovered" by the west. Why didn't these shifts in human thinking happen in the Islamic world or Byzantium where those works were never "lost"?

by /u/EconomistMagazine in /r/AskHistorians

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