By the 1st century B.C.E., which of the following was the largest city in the Mediterranean?
A)Antioch
B)Rome
C)Athens
D)Carthage
E)Alexandria

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Alexandria was founded by Alexander the Great in 331 B.C.E. and became a major cultural and economic center of the Mediterranean world. By the 1st century B.C.E., it had become the largest city in the Mediterranean, with a population estimated between 500,000 and 1,000,000 people. Antioch, Rome, Athens, and Carthage were also important cities, but none of them surpassed the size and influence of Alexandria at that time.

By the 1st Century B