World Hy Chapter 8 Lessons 3 and 4

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, including cavalry units, defeated an army of Persians in modern-day northwestern Turkey in the Battle of

• Granicus.

• Syria.

• Alexandria.

• Gaugamela.

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

• Phillip 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 which language?

• Egyptian

• Persian

• Greek

• Macedonian

Hellenistic Era- a time when Greek ideas spread to non-Greek people

• True

• False

Alexander the Great- became king of Macedonia at age 20

• true

• false

Alexander the Great- Macedonian admirer of Greek ideas who planned to conquer Persia

• true

• false

Alexandria- founded by Alexander in Egypt

• true

• false

calvary- part of an army where the soldiers ride horses

• true

• false