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test 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Battle of Leuctra | Defeat of Sparta by Thebes |
| Philip II | King of Macedon; 1st wife Olympias of Epirus, mother of Alexander |
| 354-324 Political career of Athenian orator | Demosthenes |
| 347 Death of Athenian Philosopher | Plato, founder of the Academy |
| 338 Battle of Chaeronea | Defeat of Athens and allies by Philip II |
| 336 | Assination of Philip II |
| 336-323 Alexander III Magas | Alexander the Great; King of Macedon |
| 336-326 Alexander's conquest of... | the Persian Empire and of Western India |
| 332 | Alexander the Great recognized by the Egyptians as Pharaoh |
| 330 Assassination of Darius III | Effective end of organized Persian resistance |
| 323 Death of Alexander the Great at Babylon | age 33; postumous birth of son Alexander IV |
| 323-317 Philip III, King of Macedon | mentally retarded 1/2 brother of Alexander III |
| 322-301 Wars of the Successors | Alexander's generals, real rulers of his empire |
| Most important of Alexander's Generals | Ptolemy (ruled Egypt), Antigonus and Cassander (fought over Greece and Macedon), and Seleucus (ruled all territories from eastern Syria to the limit of Alexander's conquests, though he soon had to give up to India. |
| 310 Assassinations of Alexander IV and Roxane | son and widow of Alexander the Great, by Cassander; end of the fiction of a unified empire of Alexander the Great |
| 305 Title of "king" taken by | Ptolemy and other surviving Successors |
| 301 Battle of Ipsus(won by the war elephants of Seleucus) | Defeat and death of Antigonus I |
| 298 Death of Cassander, King of Macedon | followed by almost 20 years of civil wars |
| 281 Assassination of Seleucus I by... | Ptolomy Ceraunus("Thunderbolt") |