The writings of Ancient Greece and Classical Rome, so important to the emergence of the Renaissance, survived because __________.
thinkers like Petrarch and Dante worked tirelessly to collect them from across the known world
they were preserved and reposed by a series of Venetian rulers
monks had made dedicated copies of important works by hand
Justinian I constructed a large library in Byzantium to serve as a repository for an indefinite period of time
of the invention of the printing press which allowed works to be recreated in large numbers
The first university in Europe was founded in __________.
Krakow
Bologna
Antwerp
Oxford
Paris