One feature of the Hellenistic economy was
A) an economic boom, especially in Egypt.
B) a seventy-five-year depression.
C) a lack of coinage compared with the previous period.
D) the concentration of trade and commerce in Greece.
E) making Athens the central trade center in the Mediterranean.
Ans: A
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