KERALA PSC / WORLD HISTORY / MACEDONIAN EMPIRE / OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS / STUDY MATERIALS / GENERAL KNOWLEDGE / KERALA PSC PRELIMINARY / NOTES

 

KERALA PSC / WORLD HISTORY / MACEDONIAN EMPIRE / OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS / STUDY MATERIALS / GENERAL KNOWLEDGE / KERALA PSC PRELIMINARY / NOTES

KERALA PSC / WORLD HISTORY / MACEDONIAN EMPIRE / OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS / STUDY MATERIALS / GENERAL KNOWLEDGE / KERALA PSC PRELIMINARY / NOTES

·      Mascedonia was a Greek city state. It became a prominent empire under its king Philip II (359-336 BC)

·      Alexander the Great, the son and successor of Philip II, was born in 356 BC and became the ruler in 337 BC

·      Alexander defeated the Persian ruler Darius III

·      Alexander captured Egypt and founded the city of Alexandria there

·      Alexander invaded India in 326 BC and defeated Porus

·      He died at the age of 33 in 323 BC at Babilonia

·      Ptolemy, a commander of Alexander is considered as the Father of Cartography

·      Archemedes the originator of the law of specific gravity lived in the Hellenistic Age

KERALA PSC / WORLD HISTORY / MACEDONIAN EMPIRE / OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS / STUDY MATERIALS / GENERAL KNOWLEDGE / KERALA PSC PRELIMINARY / NOTES