Notes For The Test.

Birth Place – Pella of Macedonia

Held as hostage in Thesbe

While held hostage he learned military and diplomatic education
Tried to combine cultures to make Helenistic culture

Was king of Macedon from 359 BCE

Olympia- She was a princess until Philip II conquered her father and took her as a bride. She claimed that Alexander’s the Great was the son of Zeus.

Alexander trained Bucephalus by learning that he was afraid of his shadow

In October 336 BCE Philip II of Macedon was killed in Aegea.

There was a lot of tension in Alexander’s family
The battle of the Granicus River
The Siege of Helecarnasius
The battle with the Persians at Issus

He was only 20 years old when he assumed power.

Alexander marched to India in 327 BC

In 326 B.C. his forces met the Indians

Indians fought with elephants against the foot soldiers of the Macedonian Army

He died on June 10 323 BC