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Multiple Choice

Use the following to answer questions
-Epicureanism

• A)Generally translated as "city-state," it was the basic political and institutional unit of ancient Greece.
• B)Heavily armed citizens who served as infantrymen and fought to defend the polis.
• C)A type of Greek government in which all citizens administered the workings of government.
• D)A type of Greek government in which citizens who owned a certain amount of property ruled.
• E)Belief systems that were characterized by secret doctrines, rituals of initiation, and sometimes the promise of rebirth or an afterlife.
• F)In Plato's thought, the eternal unchanging ideal forms that are the essence of true reality.
• G)Literally means "like the Greek"; describes the period from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C.E. to the Roman conquest of Egypt in 30 B.C.E., when Greek culture spread.
• H)The spread of Greek ideas, culture, and traditions to non-Greek groups across a wide area.
• I)A system of philosophy based on the teachings of Epicurus, who viewed a life of contentment, free from fear and suffering, as the greatest good.
• J)A philosophy, based on the ideas of Zeno, that held that people could be happy only when living in accordance with nature and accepting whatever happened.

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