7. Meanwhile blood was being spilled all over the country. In 1963 a Birmingham church was bombed, killing four African-American girls. Three civil rights advocates were murdered in Mississippi in 1964.
During the summer of 1965 in Watts, an all-black, run-down neighborhood in Los Angeles, a white police
officer pulled over a young black driver to check him for drunk driving. The officer arrested the young
man, but a crowd had gathered to witness the brutality. By the time the officer called for backup, the
crowd had grown larger and angrier. They began hurtling rocks and bottles at the officers. The next day,
the protest had grown into a full-scale riot with thousands of angry African Americans marching through
the streets with guns and Molotov cocktails. They set Watts on fire.
Thousands of national guardsmen were called in, and a battle raged for six days. The riot killed 34
people, injured more than 1,000 and caused $50 to $100 million in damage. The following hot summers
brought more race riots, most notably in Detroit, Michigan and Newark, New Jersey.
The Watts riots began when
A. a white police officer pulled over a young
black man in Los Angeles in 1965.
C. four African-American girls were killed in a
Birmingham church in 1963.
B. three civil rights advocates were murdered
in Mississippi in 1964.
D. police raided a bar in Detroit in 1967.

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japan participated in world war i from 1914 to 1918 in an alliance with entente powers and played an important role in securing the sea lanes in the west pacific and indian oceans against the imperial german navy as the member of the allies.

from thales, who is often considered the first western philosopher, to the stoics and skeptics, ancient greek philosophy opened the doors to a particular way of thinking that provided the roots for the western intellectual tradition. here, there is often an explicit preference for the life of reason and rational thought. we find proto-scientific explanations of the natural world in the milesian thinkers, and we hear democritus posit atoms—indivisible and invisible units—as the basic stuff of all matter. with socrates comes a sustained inquiry into ethical matters—an orientation towards human living and the best life for human beings. with plato comes one of the most creative and flexible ways of doing philosophy, which some have since attempted to imitate by writing philosophical dialogues covering topics still of interest today in ethics, political thought, metaphysics, and epistemology. plato’s student, aristotle, was one of the most prolific of ancient authors. he wrote treatises on each of these topics, as well as on the investigation of the natural world, including the composition of animals. the hellenists—epicurus, the cynics, the stoics, and the skeptics—developed schools or movements devoted to distinct philosophical lifestyles, each with reason at its foundation.

with this preference for reason came a critique of traditional ways of living, believing, and thinking, which sometimes caused political trouble for the philosophers themselves. xenophanes directly challenged the traditional anthropomorphic depiction of the gods, and socrates was put to death for allegedly inventing new gods and not believing in the gods mandated by the city of athens. after the fall of alexander the great, and because of aristotle’s ties with alexander and his court, aristotle escaped the same fate as socrates by fleeing athens. epicurus, like xenophanes, claimed that the mass of people is impious, since the people conceive of the gods as little more than superhumans, even though human characteristics cannot appropriately be ascribed to the gods. in short, not only did ancient greek philosophy pave the way for the western intellectual tradition, including modern science, but it also shook cultural foundations in its own time.

the han greatly expands the chinese empire. the han dynasty retains the centralized bureaucracy and unified political system of the qin but adopts and grafts upon this the confucian view that government should be run by educated, ethical men.

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