Which of the following cities was the best example of a cultural and educational center during the hellenistic period?
a. rome
b. athens
c. alexandria
d. babylon
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Rome and Babylon were not in Greece and the Hellenistic period refers to Greece- so they're wrong answers.

Athens and Alexandria are good examples! Alexandria was perhaps Better, but both are correct choices. 

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Answer: tokugawa ieyasu (徳川家康, january 31, 1543 – june 1, 1616) was the founder and first shōgun of the tokugawa shogunate of japan, which effectively ruled japan from the battle of sekigahara in 1600 until the meiji restoration in 1868.