sem.2.quarter4. test1

Question 1

Artaxerxes

Answer 1

weak king of Persia-could not stop the 10,000 Greeks from marching home and he lost control of Persia

Question 2

March of the 10,000

Answer 2

10,000 Greeks refused to surrender to Artaxerexes and in September 401 they marched through rough conditions back home

Question 3

King’s Peace

Answer 3

peace between Athens/Sparta. initiated by Artaxerxes

Question 4

Philip of Macedon

Answer 4

father of Alexander. King of Macedonia. triumphed over land-Alexander was worried. killed by Pausanias. ruined relationship with Alexander because he married again

Question 5

Olympias

Answer 5

wife of Philip. mother of Alexander. slept with snakes. Greek

Question 6

Alexander the Great (III)

Answer 6

son of Olympias/Philip. part Greek. Believed he was a god. great military leader. ruled/conquered a vast empire

Question 7

Bucephalas

Answer 7

horse that Alexander gained control of by turning him away from his shadow–> strategist

Question 8

Hephaestion

Answer 8

Alexander’s closest friend. trusted general, and boyhood lover

Question 9

Aristotle

Answer 9

politician. tutored Alexander “taught him to live life”. philosopher. touched on ethics, politics, embryology, astronomy, botany, magnets, history, zoology, rhetoric, poetry, curiosity. taught Alexander to make no assumptions, every situation was different, organize and analyze facts before drawing conclusions. taught alexander in the Precinct of the Nymphs in the Gardens of Midas.

Question 10

Battle of Chaeronea

Answer 10

338. Macedonia against Athenians and Thebans. 1.) Alexander rose to military fame. 2.) end of an era-Greeks would never again be free of bondage

Question 11

Corinthian League

Answer 11

all Greek cities joined except Sparta. suggested/ruled by Philip. its purpose was to attack Persia

Question 12

Parmenio

Answer 12

an advisor to Alexander and Philip. advised Alexander not to charge the Persian line making himself a target with the large white plume at the Granicus River-not listened to. Killed along with his son for being “disloyal”

Question 13

Achaemenid Empire

Answer 13

“Persian Empire”. started by Cyrus the Great. When Darius took control he divided it into 20 provinces.

Question 14

Darius III.

Answer 14

Kodomannos. puppet of Bagoas. killed Bagoas and became king of Persia. rival of Alexander the Great

Question 15

Hellespont

Answer 15

narrow passage across the Aegean Sea. crossed by Alexander the Great to get to the Persians in 334

Question 16

Granicus River

Answer 16

first conflict with Alexander leading the Macedonians against the Persians. Alexander himself led his men across to defeat the Persians.

Question 17

Tyre

Answer 17

332. Alexander led a 7 month long siege on the supposedly unconquerable city. He was so frustrated that he let his men massacre most of the city

Question 18

Issus

Answer 18

river that the navies met at. very small so like Thermopylae it did not help the large Persian navy

Question 19

Lord of the Continent of Asia

Answer 19

the name Alexander gave himself and wanted Darius to call him in exchange to sign a treaty-didn’t happen

Question 20

Siwa

Answer 20

the oasis of Zeus-Ammon where Alexander went to learn if he would conquer the world, if all of his father’s murders had been killed, and if he was the son of Zeus. The answer to all of these questions was yes

Question 21

Zeus-Ammon

Answer 21

Alexander the was told he was the son of this god

Question 22

Gaugamela

Answer 22

Persians were defeated by the Macedonians. Persians used the scythed chariots. But Alexander won out, Darius fled and left his family behind

Question 23

Persepolis

Answer 23

capital of Achaemenid Empire, burned by Alexander the Great during a drunken party.

Question 24

Mallia

Answer 24

Alexander charged the wall alone against advisement. he was shot in the chest with an arrow and it perforated his lung. he was severely weakened and never fully recovered

Question 25

Babylon

Answer 25

where Alexander became deathly ill and died

Question 26

Euclid

Answer 26

Greek who lived and worked in Alexandria, Egypt. “Father of Geometry”

Question 27

Archimedes

Answer 27

Greek who lived and worked in Sicily. principle of specific gravity, law of floating bodies, used levers, pulleys, and screws to build things such as catapults

Question 28

Cynics

Answer 28

hatred of power and worldly possessions-Diogenes

Question 29

Stoics

Answer 29

acceptance, patience, courage. their belief in the brotherhood influenced Christianity

Question 30

Epicurean

Answer 30

followers of Epicurus.no life after death. pleasure and pain measure what is good and bad. life is to be enjoyed particularly by searching for knowledge