Greek civilization departed from their Near Eastern antecedents in all the following ways EXCEPT the Greeks
A) systematized the mathematical knowledge of the Mesopotamians and Egyptians into a body of theoretical knowledge.
B) used the astronomical information compiled by the Babylonians not for religious purposes but to discover the geometrical laws that governed heavenly bodies.
C) rejected magical beliefs and practices in medicine.
D) developed the concept of a rational or legal state and the idea of free and equal citizens making their own laws.
E) eliminated any concept of a reality beyond the physical and denied the possibility of eternal life.
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Q2: In Athens, the Sophists taught
A)political skills of
Q3: Which of the following CANNOT be associated
Q4: The text notes that Plato was strongly
Q5: Which of the following statements best describes
Q6: The Pythagoreans
A)rejected democracy as too chaotic and
Q8: The earliest Ionian philosophy
A)was closely associated with
Q9: Which of the following effectively pairs early Greek
Q10: The doctrines of the Sophists encouraged all
Q11: The ideas of Anaximander included which of the
Q12: Which is an INCORRECT statement about the
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