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Ancient Greece Worksheet
chapter nine, pp. 187-197

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1. ______ was a rough land of mountains and lowland valleys just north of Greece.
2. The fact that this northern kingdom became the supreme power in Greece must rank as a major __________ in ancient military and political history.
3. The monarch was supposed to listen to all the ________. He was addressed with considerable freedom of ___________.
4. The king needed the support of the most powerful __________ of Macedonia. Their hobbies were _________, _____________, and heavy ___________.
5. These northern neighbors spoke a language related to __________, although the elites spoke the language itself.
6. Opposition to the Greece’s northern neighbor came from those such as the Athenian orator __________, who said their king was “not even a ________ from a land worth mentioning.”
7. The northern neighbor’s king, _________, was primarily responsible for making his kingdom into an international power.
8. The kings from this region were so fearful of violence from their own ______ that they stationed bodyguards at the door of the royal __________.
9. In 359 B.C., the king of the northern kingdom was killed in battle, and ______ persuaded the most important leaders of the country to make him ______. He was serving as _______ for his infant nephew. He became king at age ____.
10. The new king showed his soldiers to use thrusting __________ in a ________ formation.
11. His next order of business was to make the states of Greece acknowledge his political _____________. He supported his efforts by spending the _______ and ________ coins he had minted.
12. The northern king persuaded most of northern and central Greece to join him against the __________ Empire. The stated reason was revenge for the Persian invasion of Macedonia and Greece in _____ B.C. He also feared a newly invigorated army with _________ to do.
13. The king’s plans were resisted by a coalition led by _________ and _________. The coalition was defeated by the northern king at the battle of ___________ in 338 B.C. and forced to join the League of _________, which was under the control of the northern king. Never again were the Greek city-state ______ arbiters of their own fates.
14. The northern king was ______ by a fellow countryman. His son, __________________, who was barely ____ years old, took the throne.
15. The son destroyed ________ as punishment for its rebellion. In 334 B.C., he led an army to Anatolia to attack __________. He subsequently defeated their entire __________.
16. The son earned the nickname “ ______________ “ from those of later ages. He had an amazing ability to _________ his troops to do that which they were reluctant to do.
17. The son gave away virtually all his _____________ and _____________ in order to strengthen his ___________. “What do you have left for yourself?” he was asked. “My ________,” Alexander replied. He wanted to be seen as a _________ as glorious as ______________. He always kept a copy of the ______ under his pillow, along with a ____________.
18. When he visited ___________ in Phrygia, the story goes that he cut a _______ with his sword.
19. The young king used ________ machines and __________ to defeat the city of _________ on the coast of Lebanon. He next took over ________, where he founded a new city called __________________. He also consulted an ___________. Turning east, he defeated the Persians in northern ___________ and proclaimed himself king of _________.
20. After heading to modern-day Iraq, he went east into territory hardly known to the ___________. Each soldier was required to carry his own _______ and _________. Along with the soldiers were _________ who sold goods, _______ and children, ___________, and prostitutes.
21. From the heartland of Persia, the king marched northeastward into _________ (modern Afghanistan). The locals used ________ tactics, and he had to settle for an _________ cemented through marriage.
22. After Afghanistan, the king’s troops went eastward to ________. He probably intended to march all the way to _____ in search of the _______ of the farthest land on __________. (His mentor, ___________, had taught that the world was a ___________.) Before he could do this, his troops ________________ and he agreed to lead them home.
23. As he came back into Greece, many Greeks treated him as if he were a ______. He himself believed that he was the son of ________.
24. His explorations benefited science because he tool along scientifically minded writers to ____________ and ___________ the new knowledge they encountered.
25. The king’s plans to conquer __________ and North __________ were ended by his premature ________ from a _________ and heavy __________ in _____ B.C. He had also been suffering for a bout of _______________. When asked to whom he would give his kingdom after his death, he replied, “To the most ___________.”