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Greek Civilization Departed from Their near Eastern Antecedents in All

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Greek civilization departed from their Near Eastern antecedents in all the following ways EXCEPT the Greeks


A) systematized the mathematical knowledge of the Mesopotamians and Egyptians into a body of theoretical knowledge.
B) used the astronomical information compiled by the Babylonians not for religious purposes but to discover the geometrical laws that governed heavenly bodies.
C) rejected magical beliefs and practices in medicine.
D) developed the concept of a rational or legal state and the idea of free and equal citizens making their own laws.
E) eliminated any concept of a reality beyond the physical and denied the possibility of eternal life.

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