The Achaemenids and Alexander the Great

King Phillip II of Macedonia, one of the northern Greek city

states, brought a famous philosopher named

• Plato

• Aristotle

• Joe Biden

• Socrates

Alexander

became king at the age of

• 30

• 40

• 20

• 18

The Achaemenids were a dynasty of the

early Persian Empire founded by a king

called

• Cyrus

• King Phillip

• Alexander

Alexander died in 323 BCE of

• illness

• Old age

• Heart Attack

Greek culture mixed with

other cultures to become something Greek-like but with

elements of other cultures including Persian, Indian, and

Egyptian mixed in. This

is called_____ culture

• Persian

• Indian

• Hellenistic

The ____ was a group of soldiers

who fought close to each other using long spears, called

pikes.

• Phalanx

• Army

• War

Alexander was

an experienced _______

• King

• Military leader