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1
Alexander
reached
the___.
Tiber
Ganges
2
In northern
India
, Alexander
defeated
the armies of
King___
.
Porus
Darius
3
His
father
married
Cleopatra
, the daughter of his general
Attalus
.
False
True
4
Alexander
killed
all possible royal claimants to the
throne
.
True
False
5
In
343
Philip summoned___from Lesbos to
tutor
Alexander.
Aristotle
Plato
6
Alexander
punished
the
assassins
of
Darius
according to Persian law.
True
False
7
In
Gordium
Alexander cut the famous___.
Gordian coird
Gordian Knot
8
In October 335 Alexander prepared his___
expedition
.
Egypt
Asiatic
9
In
Thebes
he
killed
the
soldiers
, and sold the women and children into
slavery
.
True
False
10
Egypt
fell to Alexander___ resistance.
without
with
11
His
troops
were___ to those of
Darius
.
inferior
superior
12
In Thebes he
spared
only the
temples
and the house of the
poet___
.
Pindar
Homer
13
The
empire___
at his death.
collapsed
did not collaps
14
He captured the Bactrian
prince___
.
Oxyartes
Oxymandes
15
In 332 Alexander began the of siege of Tyre. He employed___.
elephants
siege machines
16
Alexander had a___.
younger sister
younger brother
17
On June 2 he fell ill with___, and 11 days later he
died
.
flu
malaria
18
Aristotle
prepared an
edition
of the___, which Alexander always kept with him.
Poetics
Iliad
19
He succeeded in forging the largest Western
empire
of the ancient world.
False
True
20
His
parents
were King
Philip
II of Macedon and
Queen___
.
Ariadne
Olympias
21
In 331 he
founded
the
city
of___.
Thebes
Alexandria.
22
To
commemorate
the
victory
over the
Persiasn
he sent___ to the Parthenon in Athens.
300 slaves
300 sets of Persian armor
300 kiolograms of gold
23
Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.) was the king of___.
Macedon
Greece
24
Alexander had deep-set___
eyes
.
blue
dark
25
Alexander was
born
in___.
365 B.C.
356 B.C.
26
He had a mass of dark,___
hair
.
curly
straight
27
Olympias
murdered
the
daughter
of Philip and
Cleopatra
.
True
False
28
He
liked
women and wine.
True
False
29
Alexander ordered a
royal funeral
with honors
for Darius
.
True
False
30
In every
country
Alexander did not
respect
the local customs, religions, and peoples.
True
False
31
Alexander united the
Greeks
.
False
True
32
He
ordered
80 of his Macedonian companions to marry Persian
princesses
.
True
False
33
Lysimachus
devised a
game
whereby Alexander impersonated the
hero___
.
Hector
Achilles
34
Alexander
defeated
the
Persians
at Arbelain the
Battle
of___.
Gaugamela
Thermopylae
35
At Memphis the
Egyptian
priesthood recognized him as___.
pharaoh
king
36
Alexander
besieged___
.
Sparta
Thebes
37
Alexander's favorite
tutor
was the Acarnian___.
Lysimachus
Losemachus
38
Alexander
married___
, a
daughter of Darius
, to legitimize his
sovereignty
.
Rhoxana
Stateira
39
Alexander
captured
the Persian
royal family
and___.
respect them
killed them all
40
Alexander renewed the
treaties
with the member states included
Sparta
.
False
True
41
His empire stretched from
Britain
to the
Himalayas
.
False
True
42
Olympias, his mother, was the daughter of___, King of the
Molossians
.
Ptolomeus
Neoptolemus
43
Darius was
assassinated
by___.
Alexander
the satraps
44
His
father__
.
was faithful to his wife
had numerous love affairs
45
___ later seized the
fortress
.
8 months
8 years
46
He
died
at the
age
of___.
32
34
33
47
One of Alexander's first
teachers
was___.
Horatio
Leonidas