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WorksheetsAlexander the Great
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
Alexander's father Philip was from what region of Greece that had been known as a cultural backwater that was barely Greek
Corinth
Sicily
Macedonia
Salamis
Philip's most important military innocation was the development of the Sarissa which was a(n)
iron-tipped chariot
18 foot pike, twice as long as all others
reinforced helmet
sharpened dagger
After 338 BCE, Philip united Greece in a Hellenic League or League of Corinth. What city state stood aside?
Sparta
Athens
Corinth
Thebes
About how large was Alexander's army (that drew in soldiers from all parts of Greece)?
2,000
4,000
40,000
400,000
The Persian King who fought against Alexander was
Xerxes
Nebuchadnezzar
Leonidas
Darius III
How did Alexander besiege the Phoenician island city of Tyre that refused to surrender to Alexander?
created a big moat around the city
created a land bridge (a causeway) and two siege towers
crossed the shallow sea by horseback
used Greek fire
How many cities (most bearing his name) did Alexander found in empire?
one
five
twelve
seventy-five
The Persian ritual that Alexander forced on his Greek troops by 329 BCE, which the Greeks thought was blasphemy, was the Persian tradition of
bathing three times a day
kneeling down in front of the king
not eating meat on Wednesdays
taking foreign wives
Roxana, Alexander's wife, whom he married in 327 BCE, was from the region of
Macedonia
Egypt
Syria
Bactria
Alexander's army mutinied in 326 BCE after conquering the region around the
Indus River
Tigris River
Euphrates River
Nile River
Alexander died in 323 BCE at the age of
32
40
53
65
Alexander left no successor, but his general carved up his empire in what was known as the ______ Age, lasting from 323-31 BCE
Scythian
Persian
Hellenistic
Roman
