6.3 Alexander's Empire

a time when Greek ideas spread to nonGreek people

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

became king of Macedonia at age 20

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

Macedonian admirer of Greek ideas who planned to conquer Persia

• Philip II
• Alexandria
• Archimedes
• Hellenistic Era

founded by Alexander in Egypt

• Alexandria
• Archimedes
• Philip II
• Hellenistic Era

used solid geometry to make weapons

• Archimedes
• Alexandria
• Philip II
• Hellenistic Era

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

• Demosthenes
• Thucydides
• Aristotle
• Plato

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

• Granicus
• Syria.
• Alexandria.
• Athens.

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