Paragraf tamamlamaSoru #10050
The Library of Alexandria was ancient history's most celebrated repository of scholarly knowledge, housing hundreds of thousands of papyrus scrolls. Popular myth often attributes its destruction to a single catastrophic inferno ordered by an invading general. ----. Historical chronicles reveal that the institution suffered repeated partial fires, financial neglect, civil unrest, and gradual bureaucratic decline over four centuries before disappearing entirely.
- A)Ptolemaic monarchs confiscated every book found on arriving merchant vessels to create imperial copies
- B)However, modern historical scholarship indicates that the library's demise was actually a prolonged, multi-stage decay
- C)Aristarchus of Samos calculated the circumference of the Earth while serving as head royal librarian
- D)Most papyrus manuscripts survived intact in underground limestone catacombs beneath modern Alexandria
- E)Julius Caesar ordered his legionnaires to reconstruct the library's burned colonnades using Roman travertine
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Doğru cevap: B) However, modern historical scholarship indicates that the library's demise was actually a prolonged, multi-stage decay
Çözüm: Önceki cümlede geçen "tek bir yangında yok olduğu efsanesi"ne karşı çıkan "However, modern scholarship indicates that the demise was actually a prolonged, multi-stage decay" ifadesi sonraki "dört yüzyıl boyunca aşamalı çöküş" açıklamasıyla bütünleşir. Doğru cevap B'dir.