The Seleucid Empire

question 39

Multiple Choice

The Seleucid empire

• A) created a state on a far grander scale than the Achaemenid empire.
• B) employed a form of imperial administration copied from the Achaemenids.
• C) fundamentally differed from the Achaemenids in their political structure.
• D) was a petty kingdom that helped give rise to the later Achaemenid empire.
• E) copied the Roman model of administration.

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