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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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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 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: Alexander's home country, the river at the edge of the territory that was the furthest point Alexander reached in his campaigns, and the capital city of the Persian empire he conquered. Locate and label the following: Alexander's home country, the river at the edge of the territory that was the furthest point Alexander reached in his campaigns, and the capital city of the Persian empire he conquered.

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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 C)
G) B) and C)

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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).       Draw in the boundaries of the four major Hellenistic states, and label each. Draw in the boundaries of the four major Hellenistic states, and label each.

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The stories of which legendary Greek hero inspired Alexander?


A) Agamenon
B) Odysseus
C) Patroclus
D) Achilles
E) Hercules

F) None of the above
G) B) and D)

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Who succeeded Aristotle as head of the Lyceum?


A) Strato
B) Theophrastus
C) Aristarchus
D) Theocritus
E) Zeno

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

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

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In its description of the world, Epicureanism looked back to which philosopher of the Hellenic Age?


A) Thales and his theory that water was the primary element of the world
B) Anaximander and his theory of the Boundless
C) Democritus and his theory of atoms
D) Plato and his theory of Forms
E) Aristotle and his theory that form and matter existed together

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

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The Stoics perceived God as


A) the creator and sustainer of live who seeks a positive relationship with his people.
B) reason, the fundamental force in the universe, not a personal deity as the Hebrews believed.
C) a human invention to defend the status quo.
D) a being engaged in a struggle against irrationality represented by darkness.
E) none of the above

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

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

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During the Hellenistic Age


A) economic activity, including trade, was restricted to Macedonian elites only.
B) competition for wealth and power decreased greatly, and social distinctions blurred.
C) cities throughout the Hellenistic world served as centers and agents of Hellenism.
D) the Macedonian language became the common language in the Hellenistic world.
E) Hellenism effectively penetrated the countryside throughout the Hellenistic world, but the movement of peoples was limited.

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

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The Hellenistic school of philosophy called Skepticism held that


A) the Epicureans were right about disengaging from the world, but the Stoics were right about the Logos.
B) the Stoics were right about the brotherhood of all people, but the Epicureans were right about the company of friends bringing the greatest pleasure.
C) the Cynics were right to renounce all possessions, but the Epicureans and the Stoics were right about the role of reason in human life.
D) nothing can be known for certain.
E) an honest religious belief is more powerful than any philosophy.

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

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Alexander's accomplishments did NOT include


A) winning every battle.
B) creating an empire stretching from Greece to India.
C) establishing his own long-running   dynasty.
D) attempts to blend together Greek and Persian elites.
E) creating a lasting fame for him through the ages.

F) A) and B)
G) B) and D)

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Who studied in Alexandria, was a mathematician, established the science of hydrostatics, and created many ingenious inventions but dismissed his practical inventions as unimportant?


A) Archimedes of Syracuse
B) Euclid
C) Aristarchus of Samos
D) Eratosthenes
E) Philo of Alexandria

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

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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) C) and D)
G) A) and B)

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

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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 B)

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

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Among the core beliefs of the Stoics was the idea that ​


A) Divine Reason orders the universe through law.
B) the world is the city of humanity , and each person is a citizen.
C) self-mastery is essential for happiness.
D) reason gives people dignity.
E) ​all of the above

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

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