Late Roman Empire
Justinian Banned Philosophy, and Persia Saved It
A single imperial decree in 529 AD shut the last ancient philosophy school and sent its scholars fleeing east—preserving the intellectual inheritance of Greece inside the Persian Empire by sheer chance.
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