Question

A ruler of this ethnicity established a major Buddhist center at his capital of Sagala. These people were known as Yonas or Yavanas in ancient Pali and Sanskrit sources. Converts of this ethnicity made the earliest (15[1])iconic statues of the Buddha. The Milindapañha records Nagasena converting a ruler of this ethnicity to Buddhism. Dynasties of this ethnicity spread Buddhism in (*) Gandhāra and Bactria. An empire of (10[1])this ethnicity ceded its easternmost provinces to Chandragupta Maurya in return for the (-5[1])war elephants used at the Battle of (-5[1])Ipsus. A conqueror of this (-5[1])ethnicity won the Battle of the Hydaspes against King Porus. For 10 points, name this ethnicity of Seleucus and other rulers who succeeded Alexander the (10[1])Great. (10[2]0[1])■END■

ANSWER: Greek [or Hellene; or Yona, Yonaka, Yavana, or Yavanar before mention; accept Macedonian; accept Ionian]
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2024 Booster Shot (Columbia)02/23/2024Y683%17%50%90.40
2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo)02/23/2024Y4100%50%25%68.00
2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt)03/02/2024Y4100%0%25%87.25
2024 Booster Shot (Great Lakes)03/09/2024Y6100%50%17%53.00
2024 Booster Shot (WUSTL)03/09/2024Y367%33%33%57.00