Chapter 5 Section 4 Flashcards
Philip II
king of ancientMacedoniaand father of Alexander the Great (382-336 BC)
Macedonia
a region of the S Balkans, now divided among Greece, Bulgaria, and Macedonia (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia). As a kingdom in the ancient world it achieved prominence under Philip II (359–336 bc) and his son Alexander the Great.
Demosthenes
was a Greek statesman and orator of ancient Athens. …Demostheneslearned rhetoric by studying the speeches of previous great orators.
Alexander the Great
A ruler of Greece in the fourth century b.c. As a general, he conquered most of the ancient world, extending the civilization of Greece east to India.Alexanderis said to have wept because there were no worlds left to conquer.
Darius III
originally named Artashata and called Codomannus by the Greeks, was the last king of the Achaemenid Empire of Persia from 336 BC to 330 BC.