History of Macedonia (ancient kingdom)

History of Macedonia (ancient kingdom) - Quiz

1. Which Greek philosopher is said to have been the tutor of Alexander the Great?

A) Aristotle
B) Pythagoras
C) Plato
D) Socrates

2. When did Alexander the Great ascend to the throne of Macedonia?

A) 323 BC
B) 400 BC
C) 336 BC
D) 200 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 Marathon
C) Battle of Gaugamela
D) Battle of Thermopylae

4. Which city did Alexander the Great famously set ablaze in 331 BC, after capturing it?

A) Persepolis
B) Thebes
C) Sparta
D) Athens

5. What was the name of the famous city founded by Alexander the Great in Egypt?

A) Luxor
B) Cairo
C) Alexandria
D) Thebes

6. Which city served as the capital of the ancient kingdom of Macedonia?

A) Thebes
B) Sparta
C) Athens
D) Pella

7. Who was the first ruler to unite the various Greek city-states and kingdoms into the League of Corinth?

A) Alexander the Great
B) Antipater
C) Perdiccas II
D) Philip II of Macedon

8. Which Persian king led the Persian invasion of Greece in 480 BC, ultimately defeated at the Battle of Plataea?

A) Darius I
B) Cyrus the Great
C) Artaxerxes I
D) Xerxes I

9. Which famous Greek king defeated and expelled the Persian forces from Macedonia in 479 BC?

A) Alexander I of Macedon
B) Philip II of Macedon
C) Alexander the Great
D) Perdiccas II

10. Who founded the kingdom of Macedonia?

A) The Achaemenid Empire
B) The Argead dynasty
C) Philip II
D) Perdiccas II

11. Which empire did Alexander the Great invade after defeating Darius III?

A) The Spartan Confederacy
B) The Carthaginian Empire
C) The Achaemenid Empire
D) The Roman Republic

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) Perseus of Macedon
B) Alexander the Great
C) Philip V
D) Antigonus III Doson

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) Philip V
B) Andriscus
C) Antigonus III Doson
D) Perseus of Macedon

16. Which Roman general crushed Andriscus's forces at the second Battle of Pydna?

A) Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus
B) Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus
C) Gaius Marius
D) Scipio Africanus

17. Who was Philip II's general that was victorious against the Illyrian king Grabos II?

A) Craterus
B) Antigonus Monophthalmus
C) Leonnatus
D) Parmenion

18. What was the name of the city that Philip II captured and refounded as Philippi?

A) Crenides
B) Pydna
C) Amphipolis
D) Potidaea

19. Who led the Antipatrid dynasty during the early Hellenistic era?

A) Antigonus I Monophthalmus
B) Cassander
C) Demetrius I of Macedon
D) Ptolemy I Soter

20. Who was the ruler of Thrace that challenged Macedonian territorial integrity during Perdiccas II's reign?

A) Pericles
B) Sitalces
C) Cnemus
D) Brasidas

21. Which city did Philip II capture in 348 BC, selling its inhabitants into slavery?

A) Pydna
B) Methone
C) Amphipolis
D) Olynthos

22. Who is believed to have assassinated Archelaus I?

A) Pausanias
B) Cleon
C) Sitalces
D) Brasidas

23. Which Spartan general aided Perdiccas II in convincing Athenian allies in Thrace to defect during the Peloponnesian War?

A) Lysander
B) Gylippus
C) Brasidas
D) Cleombrotus

24. Which non-Greek peoples lived north of Macedonia?

A) Greeks, Romans, and Persians
B) Egyptians, Assyrians, and Babylonians
C) Spartans, Athenians, and Corinthians
D) Paeonians, Thracians, and Illyrians

25. Which city did Cassander capture, defying Polyperchon's decree?

A) Corinth
B) Piraeus
C) Thebes
D) Athens

26. Which city did Athens found at the mouth of the Strymon River for access to resources?

A) Therma
B) Amphipolis
C) Pydna
D) Methone

27. Which league posed a perennial problem for Antigonus II's control over central Greece?

A) Aetolian League
B) Ptolemaic Egypt
C) Achaean League
D) Seleucid Empire

28. Who was appointed as regent over the two kings after Alexander's death?

A) Polyperchon
B) Perdiccas
C) Antipater
D) Cassander

29. Who assassinated Seleucus I in 281 BC?

A) Ptolemy Keraunos
B) Pyrrhus of Epirus
C) Antigonus Gonatas
D) Lysimachus

30. Who led the Chremonidean War against Macedonian authority?

A) Aratus of Sicyon
B) Antigonus II Gonatas
C) Chremonides
D) Ptolemy II Philadelphus

31. Which Greek victory led to the cessation of Achaemenid control over Macedonia?

A) Battle of Marathon
B) Battle of Thermopylae
C) Greek victory at Salamis
D) Battle of Plataea

32. Who provided critical aid to Amyntas III against the Chalcidian League?

A) Brasidas
B) Teleutias
C) Pelopidas
D) Cleombrotus

33. Who was nearly killed and forced into exile due to an omen about Perdiccas becoming king?

A) Temenus of Argos
B) A local king in Upper Macedonia
C) Alexander I
D) Heracles

34. Who was responsible for expelling Philip V from Macedonia in 198 BC?

A) Perseus of Macedon during the Third Macedonian War.
B) Publius Sulpicius Galba Maximus at Apollonia.
C) The Achaean League after abandoning Philip V.
D) The Roman consul Titus Quinctius Flamininus.

35. Which regions did the Argead Macedonians expand into around the time of Alexander I?

A) Persia and Babylon
B) Asia Minor and Egypt
C) Southern Greece and Crete
D) Upper Macedonia and lands to the west beyond the Axius river

36. Who was the Thracian ruler that Philip II campaigned against in 342 BC?

A) Pleuratus I
B) Cersobleptes
C) Berisades
D) Glaucias

37. What was the relationship between Macedonians and Thessalians?

A) They were frequently at war with each other.
B) The Thessalians were subjugated by the Macedonians.
C) They had much in common, both culturally and politically.
D) There was no significant relationship.

38. Who was left by Darius I of Persia to subdue the Paeonians, Thracians, and coastal Greek city-states?

A) Datis
B) General Megabazus
C) Mardonius
D) Xerxes I

39. Who expelled Pyrrhus from Macedonia in 286 BC?

A) Seleucus I Nicator
B) Antigonus Gonatas
C) Ptolemy Keraunos
D) Lysimachus

40. Which city did Alexander III burn to the ground after a revolt in 335 BC?

A) Athens
B) Corinth
C) Sparta
D) Thebes

41. Who did Philip V send to attack Illyria in 216 BC?

A) A hundred light warships
B) Scerdilaidas
C) Roman quinqueremes
D) Demetrius of Pharos

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