Ptolemaic Egypt Could Lay Claim to All the Following Except

question 76

Multiple Choice

Ptolemaic Egypt could lay claim to all the following except

• A)the greatest commercial center of the Hellenistic world.
• B)the birthplace of the most important Hellenistic philosophy.
• C)the greatest intellectual institution of Hellenistic times.
• D)temporary control of Phoenicia and Palestine.
• E)a city that, at the beginning of the Christian era, had a population of a million.

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Definitions:

Explanandum

The phenomenon or event that is to be explained in a scientific inquiry.

Uninformative

Providing no useful or relevant information.

Implausible

Not seeming reasonable or probable; failing to convince.

Implausible

Something that appears unlikely to be true or not believable based on current evidence.