Ancient Greece and Rome - Activity 2. Alexander the Great *** If you have not gone through the preparation of this topic yet, please click here. *** *** The red circle(s) on the screen shots indicate the location of the tool or button you must use. *** 1. After the decline of the city-states (poleis), Macedon, which was located in north eastern Greece, conquered Greece in the 4th century BCE. In BCE 336, Alexander III became a king, and from BCE 334, he invaded neighboring countries. When he died in BCE 323 his empire stretched across Europe, Africa, and Asia. In this activity, we will look at his empire and trace the course of its conquest. 2. Click this link. The map layer was created based on maps in The House of Ptolemy, Mapping Globalization, and Wikimedia Commons. If you want to know about a layer, click here. 3. This is the prepared map for this activity. Once the map is loaded, save this map in your Esri account using “Save.” 4. Explain to students how large the area of the empire was. It covered parts of today’s Europe (Greece, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Armenia), Africa (Egypt), and Asia (Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan). If you would like, you can use the “Measure” tool to measure the approximate distance of the empire.
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Ancient Greece and Rome - Activity 2. Alexander
the Great
*** If you have not gone through the preparation of this topic yet, please click here. ***
*** The red circle(s) on the screen shots indicate the location of the tool or button you must use. ***
1. After the decline of the city-states (poleis), Macedon, which was located in north eastern Greece, conquered
Greece in the 4th century BCE. In BCE 336, Alexander III became a king, and from BCE 334, he invaded
neighboring countries. When he died in BCE 323 his empire stretched across Europe, Africa, and Asia. In this
activity, we will look at his empire and trace the course of its conquest.
2. Click this link.
The map layer was created based on maps in The House of Ptolemy, Mapping Globalization, and Wikimedia
Commons. If you want to know about a layer, click here.
3. This is the prepared map for this activity. Once the map is loaded, save this map in your Esri account using
“Save.”
4. Explain to students how large the area of the empire was. It covered parts of today’s Europe (Greece,
Bulgaria, Turkey, and Armenia), Africa (Egypt), and Asia (Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran,
Afghanistan, and Pakistan). If you would like, you can use the “Measure” tool to measure the approximate