Family Background
Alexander's father.
Who was Philip II?
The man who killed Philip II.
Who was Pausanias?
Alexander burned this city to the ground.
What was Thebes?
The first major battle of Alexander in Asia-Minor.
What was the Granicus River?
Alexander was rumoured to have been killed by this.
What is poison?
Alexander's mother.
Who was Olympias?
Philip's final wife, who was killed in the aftermath of his assassination.
Who was Cleopatra?
Who was Eurydice?
Alexander crossed this large river to the north f Macedonia.
What is the Danube?
Alexander took 8 months to successfully besiege this major Phoenician city.
What was Tyre?
This general of Alexander's later became the king of Alexandria.
Who was Ptolemy?
The name of the family dynasty of Alexander.
Who were the Argead dynasty?
Who was Attalus?
Alexander met this cynic philosopher in Corinth.
Who was Diogenes?
Alexander's final major battle - in India.
What was the Hydaspes River?
Alexander was succeeded as king by this son of his who was not yet born at the time of his death.
Who was Alexander the IV?
The Argead dynasty were originally from this city.
What is Argos?
Cleopatra/Eurydice was killed by this method.
What is a griddle?
What is a fire?
Alexander spared this city, to ensure that Greece could be adequately defended.
What is Athens?
Alexander led this section of his armed forces.
What was the Companion cavalry?
This was the place where the second 'mutiny' against Alexander occurred in 324 BC.
What is Opis?
Alexander claimed descent from this son of Achilles.
Who was Neoptolemus?
The source from which the story of Cleopatra Eurydice being burned comes from?
Who was Pausanias?
This Athenian orator continued to oppose and make rhetorical speeches against him.
Who was Demosthenes?
Alexander was saved by him at the Battle of the Granicus River.
Who was Cleitus the Black?
Modern medical analysis thinks this is what killed Alexander.
What is typhoid fever?