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Key Terms Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? natural law

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Which of the following is ​true of the changes ushered in by the Hellenistic Age?


A) Greek encounters with different peoples and cultures strengthened their ties to their native cities.
B) The individual was consciously empowered by freedom from the tight community of the polis.
C) Philosophers came to regard the civilized world as one city.
D) Philosophers extolled more than ever the importance of active citizenship and social responsibility as the path to the good life .
E) Greek thinkers moved from cosmopolitanism to parochialism.

F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

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Key Terms Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? Diaspora

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Which of the following did the Cynics NOT reject?


A) property and work
B) religion, philosophy, and literature
C) family, community, and the state
D) social norms, polite language, and good manners
E) freedom and individualism

F) B) and E)
G) C) and D)

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Key Terms Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? Seleucids

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Instructions: Please use this outline map of the Near East to answer the question(s). Instructions: Please use this outline map of the Near East to answer the question(s).     Locate and label the following: Alexandria, Rhodes, Athens, and Alexandria Eschata. Locate and label the following: Alexandria, Rhodes, Athens, and Alexandria Eschata.

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Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. Explain the main characteristics and accomplishments of Hellenistic science.

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Key Terms Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? Skepticism

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The greatest of the Hellenistic cities was


A) Cyrene.
B) Alexandria.
C) Persepolis.
D) Pella.
E) Babylon.

F) A) and E)
G) A) and D)

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Key Terms Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? cosmopolitanism

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The plays of Menander show


A) the growing cynicism of an alienated population lost in a world over which they had no control.
B) a warm concern for people and a sympathetic understanding of human weaknesses.
C) the continued popularity of biting political satire.
D) a fascination with the unusual, the grotesque and the exotic.
E) that Greek plays could be written by non-Greek writers.

F) All of the above
G) A) and D)

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Which of the following is NOT one of the ways the world after Alexander differed from that existing before his conquests?


A) Trade and travel expanded between West and East.
B) Greek culture spread to non-Greeks.
C) Greek-style cities in Asia allowed Greek settlers to mix with native populations.
D) Alexander successfully united all the peoples in a single, world-state.
E) The distinction between barbarians and Greek lessened.

F) D) and E)
G) A) and E)

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Which Hellenistic scholar systematized geometry and developed hundreds of geometry proofs?


A) Pythagoras
B) Euclid
C) Hipparchus
D) Archimedes
E) Aristarchus

F) D) and E)
G) C) and D)

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Common to all Hellenistic kingdoms was


A) the notion that law was seen as the will of the people.
B) a sharp division of cultures and the absence of cultural cross-pollination.
C) an extensive royal support of the arts and learning.
D) Hellenization of the bulk of the population.
E) all of the above

F) A) and E)
G) A) and D)

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Among the advances of Alexandrian doctors was


A) the identification of the brain as the center of intelligence.
B) the distinction between veins and arteries.
C) the improvement of surgical techniques and instruments.
D) the discovery of organs of the body not previously known.
E) all of the above

F) A) and E)
G) B) and C)

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Among the scientific work of the Greeks during the Hellenistic Age, one may find


A) the reemergence of ideas that magic influenced the natural world.
B) a rejection of the tradition of science developed in the Hellenic Age.
C) an attempt to organize scientific knowledge rationally.
D) a neglect of botany and zoology.
E) a lack of state sponsorship.

F) B) and C)
G) A) and E)

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During the Hellenistic Age, as an institution, the polis


A) maintained its importance.
B) lost its power over domestic affairs but retained a large degree of autonomy in foreign policy matters.
C) continued to be largely self-sufficient communities.
D) no longer gave people the same degree of security and sense of belonging.
E) all of the above

F) B) and E)
G) All of the above

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Hellenistic art displayed which of the following tendencies?


A) A movement away from idealism and towards a more dynamic, emotion-laden, and uncompromising realism
B) Increasing stagnation as creative energies flowed more into economic activities
C) A declining concern with the individual
D) A growing concern with the perfect beauty
E) A growing tendency to discard Greek aesthetic and adopt older Mesopotamian and Egyptian motifs and forms

F) A) and E)
G) A) and B)

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The Skeptic Carneades of Cyrene held all the following beliefs EXCEPT


A) all theory is worthless.
B) all ideas are probability, not absolutes; there is only probability, never certainty.
C) morality must derive from practical experience not rigid ideas.
D) the universe may show signs of order , but that does not justify belief in God.
E) the problem of reason should be considered.

F) B) and D)
G) B) and C)

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Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. Both the Hellenistic world and the modern world represent an age of cosmopolitanism. How are they similar, and how are they different?

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