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