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THE WORLD'S FIRST TRUE UNIVERSITY
Today, few people have heard of Jundi Shapur. But in
its time, it was an exceptional university. Jundi Shapur
was built in what is now Iran sometime between the
400s and mid-500s A. D. We can only guess the dates,
but we do know more about the school. It was the
meeting place of the world's great minds. In 529,
Christians closed the school of Athens-the last link to
the academies of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. The
remaining Greek scholars moved to Jundi Shapur.
Jews joined them, as did a group of Christians called
Nestorians, who had their own ancient and scholarly
traditions. Persians added their voices, and one of
their learned doctors set off for what is now India, to
gather and translate the wisdom of the Hindus. The
school created the very first teaching hospital in the
world a place where the sick were treated and vouno
It convinces the reader that other universities are
inferior
It informs the reader that the text will focus on a
specific school
It reveals how this section of text is related to
sugar
It implies that the passage will describe types of
universities
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