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History of Macedonia (ancient kingdom) - Test
  • 1. Which Greek philosopher is said to have been the tutor of Alexander the Great?
A) Pythagoras
B) Aristotle
C) Plato
D) Socrates
  • 2. When did Alexander the Great ascend to the throne of Macedonia?
A) 323 BC
B) 336 BC
C) 200 BC
D) 400 BC
  • 3. Which of the following battles marked Alexander the Great's decisive victory over the Persian Empire?
A) Battle of Issus
B) Battle of Gaugamela
C) Battle of Marathon
D) Battle of Thermopylae
  • 4. Which city did Alexander the Great famously set ablaze in 331 BC, after capturing it?
A) Sparta
B) Athens
C) Thebes
D) Persepolis
  • 5. What was the name of the famous city founded by Alexander the Great in Egypt?
A) Cairo
B) Luxor
C) Thebes
D) Alexandria
  • 6. Which city served as the capital of the ancient kingdom of Macedonia?
A) Sparta
B) Pella
C) Thebes
D) Athens
  • 7. Who was the first ruler to unite the various Greek city-states and kingdoms into the League of Corinth?
A) Philip II of Macedon
B) Alexander the Great
C) Antipater
D) Perdiccas II
  • 8. Which Persian king led the Persian invasion of Greece in 480 BC, ultimately defeated at the Battle of Plataea?
A) Artaxerxes I
B) Cyrus the Great
C) Xerxes I
D) Darius I
  • 9. Which famous Greek king defeated and expelled the Persian forces from Macedonia in 479 BC?
A) Perdiccas II
B) Philip II of Macedon
C) Alexander the Great
D) Alexander I of Macedon
  • 10. Who founded the kingdom of Macedonia?
A) Philip II
B) The Argead dynasty
C) Perdiccas II
D) The Achaemenid Empire
  • 11. Which empire did Alexander the Great invade after defeating Darius III?
A) The Achaemenid Empire
B) The Carthaginian Empire
C) The Roman Republic
D) The Spartan Confederacy
  • 12. Who was responsible for the Partition of Babylon after Alexander's death?
A) Alexander IV
B) Philip II
C) Darius III
D) The diadochi, including Antipater
  • 13. Who defeated the Spartans under Cleomenes III?
A) Alexander the Great
B) Perseus of Macedon
C) Antigonus III Doson
D) Philip V
  • 14. Which war saw Macedonia's defeat by Rome, leading to the loss of its Greek territories?
A) The Cretan War
B) The Social War
C) The Third Macedonian War
D) The First Macedonian War
  • 15. Who was the pretender that briefly revived the Macedonian monarchy during the Fourth Macedonian War?
A) Perseus of Macedon
B) Antigonus III Doson
C) Philip V
D) Andriscus
  • 16. Which Roman general crushed Andriscus's forces at the second Battle of Pydna?
A) Scipio Africanus
B) Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus
C) Gaius Marius
D) Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus
  • 17. Who was nearly killed and forced into exile due to an omen about Perdiccas becoming king?
A) A local king in Upper Macedonia
B) Alexander I
C) Temenus of Argos
D) Heracles
  • 18. Which regions did the Argead Macedonians expand into around the time of Alexander I?
A) Southern Greece and Crete
B) Persia and Babylon
C) Upper Macedonia and lands to the west beyond the Axius river
D) Asia Minor and Egypt
  • 19. Who was left by Darius I of Persia to subdue the Paeonians, Thracians, and coastal Greek city-states?
A) Mardonius
B) General Megabazus
C) Xerxes I
D) Datis
  • 20. Which Greek victory led to the cessation of Achaemenid control over Macedonia?
A) Battle of Plataea
B) Battle of Thermopylae
C) Battle of Marathon
D) Greek victory at Salamis
  • 21. What was the relationship between Macedonians and Thessalians?
A) There was no significant relationship.
B) They were frequently at war with each other.
C) The Thessalians were subjugated by the Macedonians.
D) They had much in common, both culturally and politically.
  • 22. Which non-Greek peoples lived north of Macedonia?
A) Egyptians, Assyrians, and Babylonians
B) Greeks, Romans, and Persians
C) Paeonians, Thracians, and Illyrians
D) Spartans, Athenians, and Corinthians
  • 23. Who was the ruler of Thrace that challenged Macedonian territorial integrity during Perdiccas II's reign?
A) Brasidas
B) Sitalces
C) Cnemus
D) Pericles
  • 24. Which city did Athens found at the mouth of the Strymon River for access to resources?
A) Therma
B) Amphipolis
C) Methone
D) Pydna
  • 25. Which Spartan general aided Perdiccas II in convincing Athenian allies in Thrace to defect during the Peloponnesian War?
A) Cleombrotus
B) Gylippus
C) Brasidas
D) Lysander
  • 26. Who is believed to have assassinated Archelaus I?
A) Cleon
B) Pausanias
C) Brasidas
D) Sitalces
  • 27. Who provided critical aid to Amyntas III against the Chalcidian League?
A) Teleutias
B) Brasidas
C) Pelopidas
D) Cleombrotus
  • 28. What was the name of the city that Philip II captured and refounded as Philippi?
A) Amphipolis
B) Pydna
C) Potidaea
D) Crenides
  • 29. Which city did Alexander III burn to the ground after a revolt in 335 BC?
A) Corinth
B) Thebes
C) Athens
D) Sparta
  • 30. Who was Philip II's general that was victorious against the Illyrian king Grabos II?
A) Parmenion
B) Craterus
C) Leonnatus
D) Antigonus Monophthalmus
  • 31. Which city did Philip II capture in 348 BC, selling its inhabitants into slavery?
A) Methone
B) Olynthos
C) Pydna
D) Amphipolis
  • 32. Who was the Thracian ruler that Philip II campaigned against in 342 BC?
A) Pleuratus I
B) Glaucias
C) Berisades
D) Cersobleptes
  • 33. Who was appointed as regent over the two kings after Alexander's death?
A) Polyperchon
B) Antipater
C) Perdiccas
D) Cassander
  • 34. Which city did Cassander capture, defying Polyperchon's decree?
A) Piraeus
B) Thebes
C) Corinth
D) Athens
  • 35. Who led the Antipatrid dynasty during the early Hellenistic era?
A) Ptolemy I Soter
B) Antigonus I Monophthalmus
C) Demetrius I of Macedon
D) Cassander
  • 36. Who expelled Pyrrhus from Macedonia in 286 BC?
A) Antigonus Gonatas
B) Ptolemy Keraunos
C) Seleucus I Nicator
D) Lysimachus
  • 37. Who assassinated Seleucus I in 281 BC?
A) Lysimachus
B) Ptolemy Keraunos
C) Pyrrhus of Epirus
D) Antigonus Gonatas
  • 38. Which league posed a perennial problem for Antigonus II's control over central Greece?
A) Aetolian League
B) Ptolemaic Egypt
C) Seleucid Empire
D) Achaean League
  • 39. Who led the Chremonidean War against Macedonian authority?
A) Chremonides
B) Antigonus II Gonatas
C) Aratus of Sicyon
D) Ptolemy II Philadelphus
  • 40. Who did Philip V send to attack Illyria in 216 BC?
A) Roman quinqueremes
B) Scerdilaidas
C) Demetrius of Pharos
D) A hundred light warships
  • 41. Who was responsible for expelling Philip V from Macedonia in 198 BC?
A) Perseus of Macedon during the Third Macedonian War.
B) The Roman consul Titus Quinctius Flamininus.
C) Publius Sulpicius Galba Maximus at Apollonia.
D) The Achaean League after abandoning Philip V.
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