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Question
What does Megasthenes tell us about the City administration?
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Solution
Megasthenes explains that the City administration was divided into six boards of five persons each. Each Board dealt with a specific function, such as the supervision of trade and commerce or census of population or care of foreigners and so on and so forth.
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