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100

Who was Alexander's father?

What is Phillip II

100
What was the last major victory against Darius?

What is Gaugamela?

100

Which Greek biography provided details of Alexander's youth?

What is Plutarch?

100
What was the primary Persian capital (later burned down).

What is Persepolis?

100
What was the name of Alexander's horse?

What is Bucephalus?

200

Who was Alexander's tutor?

Who is Aristotle?

200

What was the first battle against the Persians in Asia minor?

What is the Battle of the Granicus?

200

Which Roman historian gave details of the military campaigns?

What is Arrian?

200

Where was the mutiny in India?

What is the River Beas?

200

What was the name of the Macedonian military formation?

What is Phalanx?

300

Who was Alexander's close friend and lover?

Who is Hephaestion

300

Which Phoenician city was destroyed after a long siege? 

What is Tyre?

300

Which of Alexander's generals, later Pharaoh, who wrote a lost account of the campaigns?

Who is Ptolomy?

300

What are the names of the central Asian provinces (2)

What are Bactria and Sogdiana?

300

What was the name of Alexander's first wife?

Who is Roxanne?

400

Who commanded the Macedonian left flank (until he was executed)?

Who is Parmenion

400

What was the brutal battle against Porus in India?

What is the Hydaspes?

400

Who was Alexander's propagandist, later killed. (Nephew of Aristotle)

Who is Callisthenes?

400

What is the location of the Oracle of Zeus-Ammon?

What is Siwa?

400

What Persian clothes did Alexander adopt?

What is diadem and sash?

500

Who saved Alexander's life at the River Granicus?

Who is Cleitus the Black?

500

Which fortress required "soldiers with wings?"

What is the Sogdian Rock?

500

Who is the lost military source that Arrian drew on?

Who is Aristoboulos?

500

What is the name of the town where Alexander cut a famous knot?

What is Gordian?

500

What animals terrified Alexander's men in India?

What are elephants?