Study Guide Test Alexander and Hellenistic Era

How did Philip II get some Greek cities to join him?

• by conquering, inviting, and bribing

• by marrying into a ruling family

• by inheriting rule

• by destroying

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

• Plato

• Aristotle

• Demosthenes

• Thucydides

Who did Phillip the II train his army like?

• Greeks

• Americans

• Romans

• Egyptians

Before Philip could conquer the Persian Empire, he was _______.

• Killed

• Defeated

• voted out of power.

Alexander took over after Phillip's death. Alexander was only _______  years old

• 30

• 20

• 26

• 22

Phillip the second had two goals one was to reunite Greece and the other was to conquer Persia. However, he died before he could accomplish his second goal but his son would take over and accomplish his second goal. According to the chart at what age did Alexander do this?

• 16

• 22

• 26

• 32

Alexander defeated Darius’s forces at _______, near the Tigris River. After this victory, Alexander’s army took over the rest of the Persian Empire.

• Alexandria

• Granicus

• Gaugamela 

• New York

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.

• empire was divided into four kingdoms.

What changed in Greek sculpture in the Hellenistic Era?

• Greek sculptors began showing more ideal versions of the perfect human body.

• Greek sculptors began only sculpting kings and queens.

• Greek sculptors began showing people more realistically.

• Greek sculptors began only sculpting nature.

According to the table what writer wrote plays about love and relationships of ordinary people?

• Theocritus

• Menander

• Socrates

• Appolonius of Rhodes