Answer:
A-It promoted the sharing of ideas.
E-It allowed Alexander the Great to dominate the region.
Explanation:
In Athens, lost the democratic spirit, there was a decrease in trade after the end of cleruquías (distribution of land to the poor) and the port of Piraeus as a strategic scale of trade routes. The last economic crisis occurred from the sacking of the city by the army of Sila in 86 a. C., that originated the descent of the wages, the abandonment of the cultures and the limited exports of articles like wine, oil and some products of luxury to very low prices. Logical consequences of the situation were the impoverishment of the town and the decrease of the birth rate. These circumstances favored mercenary, banditry and piracy as means of subsistence.
The world of merchants and businesses also needed special enclaves. Buildings comparable to chambers of commerce and other less important but equally necessary as warehouses and offices were built. The excavations of Delos have given abundant information on these buildings, especially on the set of Posidoneístas de Bertos, present Beirut, who owned an important complex consisting of a luxurious residence full of works of art, and on the other set of Negotiatiores italics with a particular agora, shops, offices and other dependencies. The Romans would imitate it in imperial times in Ostia with the Plaza of the corporations.
