Hellenistic World crossword
Across
- 3. Greek cities that Alexander established
- 4. The ruler of Rome and became close allies and fell in love with Cleopatra
- 5. Married Cleopatra after Julius Caesar passed away
- 7. The last and most famous ruler of Egypt
- 9. The king of Macedonia in 359 BC. He was mysteriously murdered possibly by his son, Alexander
- 15. A rising power from the Italian Peninsula
- 16. A group of warriors who stood close together with long spears
- 17. A Hellenistic historian who had great respect for the truth
- 19. Standard silver and gold coins
- 22. The largest ancient library built in Alexandria
- 24. A Greek city state that rebelled against Macedonia
- 26. A large place for study and scholars built in ALexandria
- 27. The capital of the Seleucid kingdom
- 28. The next person or the current person ruling a kingdom
- 29. A famous poet who wrote many comedies
- 30. A city in Persia where Alexander and his army had a long battle and came out victorious
- 32. Took control over Macedonia
- 33. efficient ways to trade and communicate with others
- 34. Many of Alexander's men fought over who would rule once he died so they divided all the land up into 3 kingdoms
- 36. The most powerful kingdom that is known as egypt
Down
- 1. The last battle that Alexander and his army fought in to conquer Persia
- 2. Took control over Egypt
- 6. Phillip II son who went on the conquer all of Persia
- 8. Land where Alexander pushed to go deeper into but could not because his army could not go farther
- 10. A huge empire that was very powerful. They eventually got conquered by Alexander
- 11. The title that Egyptians gave the name of their rulers
- 12. Rule passed down within families
- 13. A town in Asia that Alexander visited while fighting the Persians. There he heard the legend about about the knot tied by the ancient king
- 14. There is somebody in charge and whatever they say goes
- 18. Extremely large kingdom which spread over most of Persia but their leader, Seleucid had trouble ruling it because of how big it was
- 20. A Greek geographer who wrote a famous book called the "Geography"
- 21. Took control of Alexander's Asian conquest
- 23. Located in Macedonia and had a very week government
- 25. A new culture that was not completely Greek but it was greek-like
- 31. A city in Greece where Phillip II ruled and later Alexander did
- 35. When rulers would grow their kingdoms