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Recommended Reading:
- Powerpoint presentation
- Works by Demosthenes
- Richard Gabriel’s biography of Philip II argues that the Macedonian king was greater than his famous son.
- Plutarch’s biography of Alexander the Great
- Arrian’s chronicle of Alexander’s campaigns
- James Romm’s Ghost on the Throne tells the story of the chaotic period following Alexander’s death.
4th Century Greece and Alexander the Great – Quiz
- Identify at least one of the monarchies established by Alexander’s generals after his death.
- Philip II of Macedon defeated a coalition of Greek city-states at the Battle of ________ in 336 B.C.
- Philip’s son Alexander had _________ as a personal tutor in his youth.
- The decisive battle of Alexander’s invasion of the Persian Empire was the Battle of __________ in 331 B.C.
- The era following the conquests of Alexander is known as the _______ Age.
- True/False: Alexander’s conquest were checked in 323 B.C. when an Indian army defeated his forces on the banks of the Ganges.
- True/False: Athens rose to dominance again relatively quickly following its defeat in the Peloponnesian War.
- Antigonid, Seleucid, Ptolemaic
- Chaeronea
- Aristotle
- Gaugamela
- Hellenistic
- True
- False