CIVILIZATION
GREEK
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Question
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What structure was built in Alexandria to protect all of the progress that had been made in the fields of history, science, math, and medicine during the Hellenistic Age?
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The Lyceum
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The Lighthouse at Alexandria
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The Academy
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The Great Library
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Alexandria was best known for the Lighthouse of Alexandria (Pharos), one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World; its Great Library, the largest in the ancient world; and the Catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa, one of the Seven Wonders of the Middle Ages.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Ptolemies fostered the development of the Library of Alexandria and associated Musaeum into a renowned center for Hellenistic learning.
Detailed explanation-3: -Alexandria was a remarkable center of learning due to the blending of Greek and Oriental influences, its favorable situation and commercial resources, and the enlightened energy of some of the Macedonian Dynasty of the Ptolemies ruling over Egypt, in the final centuries BC.
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