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1 .       Americans have historically shown little interest in classical Mediterranean society.  

 
 


2 .       Pericles was an ordinary citizen who dominated Athenian politics during the fifth century B.C.E..  

 
 


3 .       While Rome expanded the sway of Mediterranean civilization to western Europe, its internal politics were relatively stable.  

 
 


4 .       Both Greece and Rome experimented in the diversity of political forms of governance, which ranged between democracy and tyranny.  

 
 


5 .       Classical Mediterranean civilizations regulated their societies with an elaborate legal framework and not a strong centralized bureaucratic state.  

 
 


6 .       The Greeks and Romans were never concerned with crafting a world-class religion.  

 
 


7 .       Greek architecture is considered as having invented the foundations of "classical architecture."  

 
 


8 .       The rise of commercial agriculture in Greece and then around Rome was one of the prime forces leading to efforts to establish an empire.  

 
 


9 .       Mediterranean society lagged behind both India and China in production technology.  

 
 






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