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From about 1000 to 1200 AD, semiotics moved from East to West

- Western Europe from about 1000 to 1100 AD
- The Crusades
- Translators
- Decline of Islamic influence
- Encyclopedists
- Scholastics

Although the Arabs began their journey from Mecca in the seventh century, the arrival of Arabic knowledge, including semiotic traditions, to Europe did not occur until the twelfth century. The main problem was the lack of a structure to receive this knowledge. When the structure was ready, it came from a good source, and in opposition to the Christian Church, which had finally emerged as a stabilizing force in Europe, monasteries became centers of knowledge. However, the Church Fathers encouraged only religious knowledge, expressing their distrust of secular sciences and philosophy, believing that such studies would rob religion of its unquestionable faith.

With the sudden increase in urban development in the twelfth century, centers of knowledge moved from monasteries to cities, with the establishment of new universities. Although European academics at these universities were still somewhat crushed in the face of ecclesiastical opposition, they began to study newly translated texts from Arabic and Greek on mathematics, philosophy, astronomy, medicine, and alchemy. Information was finally absorbed through the works of these academics: encyclopedists compiled information into encyclopedias, scholastics discussed knowledge in the context of divine religious discourse, and empiricists selected new information.