Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Hellenism promoted a city-state focused world-view or outlook that discouraged learning about other cultures or sharing information.
2. Stoicism urged the individual to listen to the divine element within and to attain a state of harmony with nature and the universe.
3. Epicurus profoundly influenced the history of Western religion, especially later beliefs about the immortality of the soul and the effects that decisions made in this life can have on posthumous rewards and punishments.
4. Alexander the Great conquered the eastern Mediterranean region, including Palestine, in the late fourth century BCE.


1. FALSE
2. TRUE
3. FALSE
4. TRUE

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