Deck 8: Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Age 387-31 BCE

Question 1

Pelopidas and the brilliant Theban general _______ were largely responsible for Thebes' increasingly aggressive foreign policy in the early fourth century BCE.

A)Philip
B)Xenophon
C)Epaminondas
D)Brasidas

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Which of the following battles ended Spartan hegemony in Greece in 371 BCE?

A)The Battle of Leuctra
B)The Battle of the Crocus Fields
C)The Battle of Gaugamela
D)The Battle of Chaeronea

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Who remade the Macedonian army into the more fearsome fighting machine the ancient world had yet seen?

A)Philip II
B)Xenophon
C)Perseus III
D)Amyntas III

Answer 3

A

Question 4

The Athenian orator _______ opposed Philip II of Macedon in a series of fiery speeches known as the Philippics.

A)Isocrates
B)Lysias
C)Plato
D)Demosthenes

Question 5

Which of the following were among the stipulations of the League of Corinth?

A)All members were to remain autonomous
B)All members were required to follow the foreign policy of Macedon
C)The two kings of Sparta would command the League's army
D)The king of Macedon would command the League's army

Question 6

Which of the following was Alexander's first major battle in Persian territory?

A)The Battle of Gaugamela
B)The Battle of Issus
C)The Battle of Leuctra
D)The Battle of the Granicus River

Question 7

The Battle of _______ ended with the flight of Darius, the disintegration of his army, all of which spelled the end of large-scale Persian opposition to Alexander's invasion.

A)Issus
B)the Granicus River
C)Gaugamela
D)Leuctra

Question 8

Alexander married _______, a Bactrian princess.

A)Roxana
B)Olympias
C)Thaïs
D)Thalestris

Question 9

Alexander founded over seventy colonies, all of them named _______.

A)Olympia
B)Bucephala
C)Alexandria
D)Philippi

Question 10

Where did Alexander establish the capital of his empire?

A)Susa
B)Babylon
C)Persepolis
D)Ecbatana

Question 11

Which of the following are were major figures among the Diadochi, or "Successors," of Alexander after his death?

A)Antigonus I the One-Eyed
B)Seleucus
C)Hephaestion
D)Ptolemy I

Question 12

After Alexander's death, Egypt came under the control of the _______ dynasty.

A)Ptolemaic
B)Antigonid
C)Apollonian
D)Keraunian

Question 13

Which of the following were created in order to resist the expansion and growing power of Macedonia?

A)The Theban League
B)Aetolian League
C)The Boeotian League
D)Achaean League

Question 14

The Ptolemies created the composite god _______, a combination of the Greek Zeus and the Egyptian Osiris.

A)Cyrene
B)Hendiadys
C)Serapis
D)Antiochus

Question 15

In the Hellenistic world it was commonly felt that the world was controlled by _______.

A)sideros
B)kosmos
C)Aoth
D)tychē

Question 16

Which of the following are among the principal teachings of Epicureanism?

A)The universe is highly structured into a pattern established by logos
B)There are no gods or good or bad luck
C)The universe consists of atoms falling through space
D)ataraxia, or peace of mind

Question 17

Which philosopher is credited with the introduction of the scientific method?

A)Zeno
B)Aristotle
C)Epicurus
D)Diogenes

Question 18

Around 250 BCE, _______ proposed a heliocentric universe, with a rotating Earth.

A)Callimachus
B)Hippocrates
C)Euthyphro
D)Aristarchus

Question 19

Is the area pictured here north, south, east, or west of Athens?

A)North
B)South
C)East
D)West

Question 20

The lighthouse of Alexandria, depicted here in a mosaic, is one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Which of the following, established after a failed siege of Demetrius Poliorcetes and built from the metal of his siege engines, is also a Wonder of the Ancient World?

A)The Obelisk of Cyprus
B)The Mausoleum of Alexander
C)The Colossus of Rhodes
D)The Temple of Cybele