Alexander the Great, Key Words, Test 1

 

Geography (identify on map)

      Greece

      Aegean Sea

      Ionia

      Phrygia

      Cilicia

      Syria

      Illyria

      Thrace

      Phoenicia

 

Persians

      Cyrus

      Darius I

      Xerxes

      Darius III

      Bagoas

      Harem politics

      Decimal organization

      Immortals

      Mobility vs. defense

      cavalry

      Mercenaries and ethnic units

      Navy (Phoenicians)

      Satraps

      Decline of the military system

 

Greece before Alexander

      Persian Wars

      Peloponnesian Wars

            Marathon (490)

            Thermopylae (480)

            Salamis (480)

      Spartan Hegemony

      Theban Hegemony

      Xenophon (Anabasis)

      Battle of Leuctra (372)

      Athens (maritime power)

 

Hoplite military

      Citizen soldiers

      Heavy armor

      Shield wall (phalanx)

      Weaknesses

            Inflexible; vulnerable flanks

            Weak cavalry and missile

      Leadership

      Spartan professional army

      Rise of Mercenaries

            Experience

            Permanent army

            Loyalty?

      Peltasts

 

Macedonian Military System

      Philip’s reforms

      Sarissa

      Phalanx

      Standing army

      Gold mines of Crenides

      Improved Siegecraft

      Improved logistics

      Professional officers

      Iphicrates

      Hypaspists

      Companions

      Thessalians

      Missile troops

      The “predatory army” problem

 

Philip and Alexander’s youth

      Olympias

      Aristotle

      Third Sacred War (Phocis)

      Balkan campaigns

      Chaeronea (338)

      League and congress of Corinth

      Assassination (336)

      Demosthenes

      Cleopatra

      Parmenio

      Amyntas

 

Alexander in Greece

      Succession crisis

      Financial crisis

      Balkan campaigns

      Thebes (335)

      Oracle at Delphi

      Crossing the Hellespont

Alexander in Anatolia

      Troy

      Granicus (334)

      Sardis

      Halicarnassus (334)

      Memnon

      Gordian

      Strategy in Phrygia

      Assassination attempts

      Persian naval operations

 

Siegecraft

      Towers

      Rams

      Artillery

      Logistics

      Engineers

      Pyrotechnics

      Sapping

      Sacking

      Counter-walls

 

Naval Issues

      Trireme (strengths and weaknesses)

      Trireme combat

      Navigation

      Maritime peoples

      Persian naval strategy

      Alexander’s naval strategy

 

Battle of Issus

      Persian strategy

      Alexander’s strategy

      Cavalry battle

      Phalanx battle

      Alexander’s charge

      Fight around Darius

      Results

 

Siege of Tyre

      Logistics and finances

      Mole

      Maritime defection

      Tyrian counter-attacks

      Ships with rams

      Military engineering