Study the picture and answer the following questions:

(a) The university in the picture was earlier a monastery. Where is the university located?

(b) What is a monastery?

(c) Explain briefly the role of monasteries in spreading education.

(a) The Cambridge University is located at Cambridge in the United Kingdom.

(b) Monastery is a place were monks and nuns live. The monasteries of nuns were known as convents or nunneries.

(c) Monasteries' contribution in the field of education was immense. The nuns and monks educated children and in course of time, some of these monasteries developed into famous universities like the Oxford and the Cambridge.