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1. Muslims recapture the Holy Land
2. Minamoto family wins a civil war in Japan
3. New European universities founded
4. European churches built in startling new style
5. Angkor Wat completed in Khmer kingdom
6. Shona people build splendid city
7. Anasazi erect immense communal houses
8. Western European philosophers debate ideas of Aristotle

3. New European universities founded

Three of Europe's leading cities, Paris, France, and Bologna, Italy, developed universities in the past century. In England, an important university began to develop in a town called Oxford. This minor center of learning gained prominence when hostility between England and France forced English students to pursue their education at home rather than at the University of Paris.

Click here for a glimpse of campus life at the University of Paris.

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