What are at least two different examples of networks or schools that stimulated innovation in thought? Only one should be Western
What will be an ideal response?
A. New Schools that stimulated innovation in the axial age
1. Africa, the Americas, the Pacific world, Western Europe, or northern or Central Asia may have had comparable schools
a. they have left no record
b. people who lived in those areas did initiate traditions of thought that had local or regional influence
2. the Hundred Schools in China
a. mixed what we would now think of as secular and religious thinking
b. participants included thinkers, observers, and experimenters
3. Nyaya school in India
a. shared confidence in reason and the urge to analyze it, resolving arguments step by step
4. Academy of Athens
a. a formal institution of education that helped define networks and stimulated competition
b. master–pupil relationships created traditions or what we might call cross-generational networks
B. Sages founded schools or established influence
1. depended on contacts they made and spread their reputations
2. networks stimulated innovation, nourished competition, fertilized ideas through discussion, and gave innovators emotional support
3. Epicurus and Zeno of Citium established schools in Athens
4. competition and debate sharpened sages' views
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A) English public opinion opposed recognizing a nation based on slavery. B) they were unsure of who was likely to win the war. C) they no longer needed southern cotton. D) they feared war with the Union.
In 1950, Alger Hiss was convicted of:
A) being a communist in the 1930s. B) spying for Germany during World War II. C) passing secrets to the Soviet Union. D) perjury in denying his communist connections.
The Union war effort began by implementing the strategy embodied in General Winfield Scott's "anaconda plan," which called for
A. encircling and squeezing the Confederacy with a naval blockade. B. postponing direct military operations until the North's industrial capacity could be brought up to full military production. C. a concealed and roundabout infiltration of Confederate territory west of the Mississippi. D. a sudden strike against a vulnerable point of the borders of the Confederacy.
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What will be an ideal response?