A) Akbar.
B) Asoka.
C) Chandragupta.
D) Shiva.
E) Bodhisattva.
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A) was opposed by Hellenistic rulers who saw education as a threat to their power.
B) was open to all classes of society except slaves.
C) made no provision for physical education.
D) was focused exclusively upon vocational training.
E) closely and widely followed classical Greek ideas about proper education.
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A) became despotic monarchies.
B) rarely fought amongst themselves.
C) included large numbers of non-Greeks in leadership positions.
D) showed little innovation in their armies and military institutions.
E) all disappeared by the second century B.C.E.
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A) condemned Philip II for his aggression against the Greek city states.
B) agreed with Demosthenes that Alexander would be an improvement over Philip II.
C) hoped that Philip would unite the Greek world in a campaign against Persia.
D) was put to death for criticizing the gods.
E) supported Alexander of Macedonia in his struggle against his father, Philip.
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A) Hippocrates.
B) Asclepius.
C) Herophilus.
D) Erasistratus.
E) Euclid.
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A) demonstrated the renewed association of the happiness of individuals with the life of the polis.
B) coincided with a growth of traditional Greek religious practices.
C) suggested a new openness to thoughts of universality in the cosmopolitan Hellenistic states.
D) amounted to proof of a growing homogenization of Greek thought.
E) All of these are correct.
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A) portrayed Philip II as a looming threat to Greek freedom.
B) foresaw a revival of Athenian culture under the leadership of Philip II.
C) glorified the Macedonian armies as the saviors of Greece.
D) praised Philip II for freeing the Ionian cities.
E) portrayed Philip II as a looming threat to Persia.
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A) The early Macedonians were greatly admired by the Greeks for their cultural achievements.
B) The Macedonians were probably not Greek.
C) The Macedonians organized themselves in city-states like their southern Greek neighbors.
D) The Greeks prohibited them from participating in the Olympic Games.
E) Macedonia emerged as an important kingdom during the Greek Archaic Age.
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A) lower class
B) middle class
C) upper class
D) slaves
E) working class
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A) Ptolemy.
B) Brassius.
C) Seleucis.
D) Antigonis.
E) Bucephalus.
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A) It changed to various kinds of emperor worship.
B) Fertility gods took the place of the classical Greek gods.
C) The Greeks became very receptive to the eastern religious mystery cults.
D) The Greeks reverted back to a form of animism.
E) It was deeply influenced by Buddhism, brought to the west by Alexander and his successors.
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A) uniting the disciplines of science and philosophy.
B) designing military devices to thwart siege attackers.
C) creating the science of hydrostatics.
D) establishing the value of the mathematical constant pi.
E) work on the geometry of spheres and cylinders.
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A) Palestine.
B) Egypt.
C) Macedonia.
D) Syria and Mesopotamia.
E) India.
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A) Alexander's men heavily outnumbered the Persian forces.
B) Alexander broke through the center of the Persian line with his heavy cavalry, followed by the infantry.
C) the Persians were unable to use their war chariots because the narrow battlefield limited their maneuverability.
D) Persian king Darius was killed at the end of the battle.
E) Alexander was forced to retreat back to Susa after his defeat.
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A) his lack of military expertise prior to his father's assassination.
B) the Persian king Darius III's refusal to make any peace settlements and resort to guerilla warfare.
C) the lack of a strong cavalry and inability to capture Egypt.
D) his eventual difficulties in convincing his troops to fight so far from home.
E) violent opposition back in Greece by most of the city-states.
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A) were completely foreign and thus unacceptable to the Greeks.
B) helped pave the way for the success of Christianity.
C) never achieved widespread popularity due to their inability to fulfill people's spiritual needs.
D) lacked an emotional initiation experience, unlike the Greek civic cults.
E) became the state religions of the various Hellenistic kingdoms.
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A) the extension and imitation of Greek culture throughout the ancient Near East.
B) the absence of autocratic power for nearly three centuries.
C) the disappearance of a Greek cultural legacy until Roman times.
D) Alexander's successors maintain a united empire until Roman times.
E) the disappearance of Greek religious beliefs and practices.
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