Alexander the Great & The Hellenistic Age (2)
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1
Alexander the Great helped to spread Greek culture by?:
forcing Persians to learn Greek.
making all the conquered people worship Greek gods.
dressing in Persian clothes.
encouraging Greeks to settle in the lands he conquered.
2
The Macedonians were able to conquer Greece because?:
Philip persuaded all the city-states to accept him.
there was no unified Greek resistance.
the Macedonian army overcame the strong unified resistance of the city-states.
Demosthenes persuaded the Athenians to welcome Philip.
3
After his death, Alexander the Great's empire was?:
ruled by his son and grandson.
taken over by the Romans.
replaced by the emergence of sovereign city-states.
divided and fought over by his leading generals.
4
Alexander the Great encouraged the growth of science during the Hellenistic Age by?:
conquering a huge empire.
taking his library of scientific books on his conquests.
taking scientists on his military campaigns.
translating all Greek works into Persian.
5
To become "Hellenized" essentially meant to?:
adopt Greek customs and ways of life.
join Philip of Macedon in fighting the Greeks.
swear loyalty to Alexander the Great.
accept the teachings of Aristotle.
6
Which of the following statements about the city of Alexandria in Egypt is TRUE?:
it was located on the Red Sea.
it was a center of commerce and of cultural life.
it was a large city for its time, consisting of about 50,000 people.
it was essentially an Egyptian city with an Egyptian population.
7
Alexander the Great gave up the idea of conquering the world because?:
he was seriously ill.
the Tigris was too difficult to pass.
he missed his Greek wife.
his troops were homesick and refused to go any further.
8
A student of both Thales and Pythagoras would most likely know all of the following EXCEPT?:
the relationship of the sides of a right-angled triangle.
when a solar exlipse would occur.
how the earth moved around a fixed point.
that the earth is flat.