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6. How much can you see and describe in the Alexander Mosaic (ill.u.s.tration, page 123)?

7. Compare Alexander's invasion of Persia with the invasion of Greece by Xerxes.

8. Distinguish between the immediate and the ultimate results of Alexander's conquests.

9. Comment on the following statement: ”No single personality, excepting the carpenter's son of Nazareth, has done so much to make the world we live in what it is as Alexander of Macedon.”

10. How did the Macedonian Empire compare in size with that of Persia?

With that of a.s.syria?

11. What modern countries are included within the Macedonian Empire under Alexander?

12. How did the founding of the h.e.l.lenistic cities continue the earlier colonial expansion of Greece?

13. Why were the h.e.l.lenistic cities the real ”backbone” of h.e.l.lenism?

14. Why do great cities rarely develop without the aid of commerce? Were all the great cities in Alexander's empire of commercial importance?

15. Show how Alexandria has always been one of the meeting points between Orient and Occident.

16. How did the opening of the Suez Ca.n.a.l in 1869 A.D. affect the commercial importance of Alexandria?

17. Name some of the great scientists of the Alexandrian age.

18. What were their contributions to knowledge?

19. Using the maps on pages 76 and 132, trace the growth of geographical knowledge from Homer's time to that of Ptolemy.

20. What parts of the world are most correctly outlined on Ptolemy's map?

21. ”The seed-ground of European civilization is neither Greece nor the Orient, but a world joined of the two.” Comment on this statement.

FOOTNOTES

[1] Webster, _Readings in Ancient History_, chapter xii, ”Demosthenes and the Struggle against Philip”; chapter xiii, ”Exploits of Alexander the Great.”

[2] Philippi became noted afterwards as the first city in Europe where Christianity was preached. See _Acts_, xvi, 9.

[3] See the map between pages 68-69.

[4] See page 275.

[5] See page 39.

[6] See page 272.

[7] See page 90.