Greek Civilization Lesson 3

a time when Greek ideas spread to non-Greek people

• Hellenistic Era
• legacy
• Alexander the Greek
• Alexandria

became king of Macedonia at age 20

• Hellenistic Era
• legacy
• Alexander the Great
• Philip II

Macedonian admirer of Greek ideas who planned to conquer Persia

• Philip II
• legacy
• Alexandria
• legacy

founded by Alexander in Egypt

• Alexandria
• Philip II
• Alexander the Great
• legacy

what a person leaves behind when he or she dies

• legacy
• Hellenistic Era
• Alexandria
• cold

Which public speaker said that the Macedonian king Philip II was considered a threat to Greek freedom?

• Plato
• Aristotle
• Demosthenes
• Thucydides

Alexander and his army of 40,000 Greek and Macedonian soldiers defeated the Persians in the Battle of

• Granicus
• Syria
• Alexandria
• Athen

Alexander's main enemy, the king of the Persians, was

• Philip II
• Issus
• Homer
• Darius III

After his death, Alexander's empire fell apart because his

• wife gave away the throne
• army was sick with plague

• children did not like war
• generals fought one another

In Hellenistic kingdoms, government business was conducted in what language?

• Egyptian
• Persian
• Greek
• Macedonian