The rise of Macedon, 359-323 BC

• When did Philip become king of Macedon?

  359 BC
• When did Alexander become king of Macedon?

  336 BC
• When did Alexander die?

  323 BC
• Who were Alexander’s parents?

  Philip II and Olympias
• Who were Philips parents?

  Amyntas III and Eurydice
• When was the battle of Issus?

  333 BC
• When was the battle of chaeronea?

  338 BC
• What is the significance of the battle of chaeronea?

  partly credited to 18 year old Alexander. But made Macedon hegemon of Greece
• When was the hyphasis mutiny?

  326 BC
• When was the siege of Halicarnassus?

  334 BC
• Where did Alexander die?

  Babylon
• When was the league of Corinth set up?

  338/337 BC
• When was the Opis mutiny?

  324 BC
• How old was Alexander when he became king of Macedon?

  20
• Why did the Opis mutiny occur?

  Alexanders men became worried of his orientalism and that he was becoming too Persian
• What was the name of Alexanders horse?

  Bucephalus
• What did Alexander do at Persepolis?

  looted and burned it in 330 BC
• When was the battle of the Hydaspes?

  326 BC
• Where was Philip II taken hostage?

  Thebes, 368-365 BC
• Which battle did Philip lose an eye?

  the siege of Methone
• What was the league of Corinth?

  a confederation of Greek states created by Philip II. In an attempt to unify Greece and defeat the Persian Achaemenid empire
• When did Alexander march through the Gedrosian desert?

  325 BC
• When was the siege of Methone?

  354 BC
• When did Haphaestion die?

  324 BC
• When was the battle of the Granicus?

  334 BC
• When was the battle of Gaugamela?

  331 BC
• When was the siege of Byzantium?

  340 BC
• Why did the Hyphasis mutiny occur?

  in 326 BC, Alexanders men had become old and tired, they wanted to go home
• When was the mass marriages at Susa?

  324 BC
• When was the siege of Perinthus?

  340 BC