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CHAPTER 8 ALEXANDER THE GREAT AND THE HELLENISTIC AGE (387–31 BCE)

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Title: Chapter 08 Question 01

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

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a. Philip

b. Xenophon

c. Epaminondas

d. Brasidas

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Title: Chapter 08 Question 02

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

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a. The Battle of Leuctra

b. The Battle of the Crocus Fields

c. The Battle of Gaugamela

d. The Battle of Chaeronea

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Title: Chapter 08 Question 03

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

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a. Philip II

b. Xenophon

c. Perseus III

d. Amyntas III

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Title: Chapter 08 Question 04

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

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a. Isocrates

b. Lysias

c. Plato

d. Demosthenes

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Title: Chapter 08 Question 05

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

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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

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Title: Chapter 08 Question 06

6. Which of the following was Alexander’s first major battle in Persian territory?

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a. The Battle of Gaugamela

b. The Battle of Issus

c. The Battle of Leuctra

d. The Battle of the Granicus River

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Title: Chapter 08 Question 07

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.

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a. Issus

b. the Granicus River

c. Gaugamela

d. Leuctra

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Title: Chapter 08 Question 08

8. Alexander married _______, a Bactrian princess.

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a. Roxana

b. Olympias

c. Thaïs

d. Thalestris

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Title: Chapter 08 Question 09

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

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a. Olympia

b. Bucephala

c. Alexandria

d. Philippi

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Title: Chapter 08 Question 10

10. Where did Alexander establish the capital of his empire?

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a. Susa

b. Babylon

c. Persepolis

d. Ecbatana

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Title: Chapter 08 Question 11

11. Which of the following are were major figures among the Diadochi, or “Successors,” of Alexander after his death?

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a. Antigonus I the One-Eyed

b. Seleucus

c. Hephaestion

d. Ptolemy I

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Title: Chapter 08 Question 12

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

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a. Ptolemaic

b. Antigonid

c. Apollonian

d. Keraunian

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Title: Chapter 08 Question 13

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

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a. The Theban League

b. The Aetolian League

c. The Boeotian League

d. The Achaean League

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Title: Chapter 08 Question 14

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

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a. Cyrene

b. Hendiadys

c. Serapis

d. Antiochus

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Title: Chapter 08 Question 15

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

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a. sideros

b. kosmos

c. Aoth

d. tychē

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Title: Chapter 08 Question 16

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

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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. The goal of life is ataraxia, or peace of mind

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Title: Chapter 08 Question 17

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

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a. Zeno

b. Aristotle

c. Epicurus

d. Diogenes

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Title: Chapter 08 Question 18

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

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a. Callimachus

b. Hippocrates

c. Euthyphro

d. Aristarchus

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Title: Chapter 08 Question 19

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

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a. North

b. South

c. East

d. West

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Title: Chapter 08 Question 20

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?

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a. The Obelisk of Cyprus

b. The Mausoleum of Alexander

c. The Colossus of Rhodes

d. The Temple of Cybele