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| 1. What conditions led to the growing number of mercenaries in the fourth century BCE? |
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| 2. Why did Plato's ideal polis differ from Aristotle's? |
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| 3. What accounts for the remarkable success of the Macedonian conquests? |
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| 4. What characteristics defined and distinguished the three major Hellenistic kingdoms? |
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| 5. Why was prosperity so unevenly distributed in the Hellenistic economy? |
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| 6. What was the relationship between Epicureanism and Stoicism? |
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| 7. What were the principal themes of Hellenistic architecture and sculpture? |
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| 8. Why did science and medicine flourish in this period? |
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| 9. What changes occurred during the Hellenistic period to the polis-based culture of classical Greece? |
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