What is meant by the term "axial age," and why is it an appropriate term for the intellectual developments of the ancient world?
What will be an ideal response?
A. In the first millennium B.C.E the thought of the sages and their schools stretched, axislike, across Eurasia, in regions that more or less bordered on and influenced each other
1. the most explosive new ideas of the age
2. innovating thinking that made connections and contrasts
a. religion and morals
b. politics
c. reason and science
3. axis means pivot and this was a pivotal time that changed the social and culture fabric of society
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
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A) make peace between Sunnis and Shi'ites B) resist Mughal rule C) resist Ottoman rule D) destroy mosques in India
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