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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

8. Western European philosophers debate ideas of Aristotle

Increasing contact with Arab and Byzantine civilizations is bringing classical learning back to Western European lands. European scholars are becoming familiar with the writings of the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle. Some are wrestling with contradictions between Aristotle's teachings, which predate the birth of Christianity, and Christian theology and Biblical interpretation.

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