Alexander the Great Vocabulary (#3)

Phillip II of Macedonia

King of Macedonia and Alexander the Great's father who defeated Greece

Macedonia

A country in Europe just above Greece

Alexander the Great

Macedonian king and son of Philip II who conquered largest empire world has ever seen.

Hellenistic

Greek-like

Aristarchus

Greek astronomer who was first person to propose earth moves around sun

phalanx

A military formation in which a group of soldiers stood close together in a square.

Ptolemy

A powerful general who ruled Egypt whose dynasty became the most powerful and wealthiest of all the kingdoms.

Cleopatra VII

The last and most famous female ruler of Egypt that will have future connections to Rome... get ready!

Aristotle

Greek philosopher. A pupil of Plato and the tutor of Alexander the Great