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Question 1

Although Thales is responsible for all the following innovations, the text identifies which as revolutionizing thought?
 
  a. Thales was the first man known to have predicted a solar eclipse.
  b. Thales omitted the gods from his explanation of nature and found physical explanations to be sufficient.
  c. Thales believed that water was the basic element out of which everything was made.
  d. Thales broke with the commonly held explanation for the occurence of earthquakes.
  e. Thales noted that heavenly objects move in regular patterns.

Question 2

The golden age historian Livy is best known for his
 
  a. rejection of Latin prose in favor of Greek poetic forms.
  b. perception of history in terms of sharp moral lessons.
  c. factual accuracy and critical judgment toward his sources and Rome's past.
  d. written work, Epistles, which portrayed Rome as a degenerate society in a state of collapse.
  e. depiction of the Trojan Wars, which was the subject of the Aeneid.




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