Question

How was education impacted as a result of the fall of the western roman empire?A roman ideas had to be reinduced centuries later after being lost to europeans.B roman texts were destroyed and lost to history after germanic invasions.C roman ideas once lost to the fall of the empire.Were we placed with humanistic ones?D.Roman texts were excluded from education because of negative association with the fall of the empire

Answer 1

Best answer: A (with important nuance).

Explanation:
- After the fall of the Western Roman Empire formal classical education in the West declined and many elements of Roman schooling and classical learning became much less common. Over the next centuries much classical learning survived only in monasteries and in the Eastern (Byzantine) Empire and was gradually reintroduced to Western Europe (notably during the Carolingian Renaissance and later the Renaissance/humanism).
- B is too absolute: some Roman texts were lost, but many were preserved in monasteries and in Byzantium rather than being wholesale destroyed.
- C is unclear/incorrect as written: Roman educational practices were not immediately “replaced with humanistic ones.” Humanism was a much later Renaissance movement that revived classical learning.
- D is incorrect: Roman texts were not systematically excluded from education because of a stigma about the Empire’s fall; where classical texts disappeared it was because institutional support and Latin literacy declined, not because of an organized ban.