Greek History and Politics

Classical Era, Wars and the Macedonian Empire

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  1. The general modern consensus is that the Spartan commander King Cleombrotus led approximately 10,000 Peloponnesian infantry, including 700 Spartiates (i.e. full Spartan citizens), and 1,000 cavalry, a…
  2. In 338 BC, Philip II established Macedonian hegemony over the Greek city-states by defeating Athens and Thebes at which battle?
  3. In 338 BC, the Battle of Chaeronea marked the culmination of King Philip's campaigns and resulted in what historical outcome?
  4. Born in Pella, Macedon, Alexander was tutored by the philosopher and polymath who until the age of 16?
  5. What was Alexander the Great's first major pitched battle against the Persian satraps in Asia Minor in 334 BC?
  6. At the Battle of Issus in 333 BC, which Persian monarch was forced to flee the battlefield before Alexander?
  7. Taking place with ground-flattening efforts before engaging Darius' army in battle, which engagement occurred at Gaugamela?
  8. The Roman Senate ordered who, one of the consuls for the year, to sail from Achaea to Greece to put down the revolt, but in the interim, they authorized Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus, who had…
  9. Having ruthlessly subdued the 532 Nika revolt, Emperor Justinian rebuilt much of which imperial capital city, including the Hagia Sophia?
  10. The total of which emperor's legislation is known today as the Corpus juris civilis?
  11. In which year was Constantinople captured by the Ottoman Empire after a 53-day siege that culminated on 29 May?
  12. The secret revolutionary organization Filiki Eteria was founded in 1814 in which Black Sea port city?
  13. Theodoros Kolokotronis, 'the Old Man of the Morea', famously routed the Ottoman army of Dramali Pasha where?
  14. Allied forces from Britain, France, and what decisively defeated Ottoman and Egyptian forces which were trying to suppress the Greeks, thereby making Greek independence much more likely?
  15. From 1816 until 1822, Ioannis Kapodistrias served as the foreign minister of which empire?

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