Damien Russell
Zoch Ch15
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Study Guide: Zoch, Chapter 15
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Ch. 15 Rome Encounters the East
1. Where and when did Alexander the Great die? Who were the Antigonids?
The Seleucids? The Ptolemies? What were some other, minor powers which
were successor monarchies to Alexander’s empire?
323 in Babylon.
Ruling line of the Macedonia Hellenistic Kingdom
Seleucid Empire is another Hellenistic kingdom. Kings were
named Anitochus or Seleucus.
Egypt was ruled by the Ptolemies, who treated all Egypt as their
personal farm or factory.
Pergamum ruled by kings named Attalus or Eumenes; Island of
Rhodes it had powerful navy and commercial interests.
2. What instigated the First Macedonian War? What was its outcome?
(216) King Philip V made an alliance with Hannibal, and tried to
expand Illyricum by takeing over Dyrrhachium.
215 Rome sent an army to drive him away. Rome was busy with
Hannibal, the Gauls, Spain and Africa, the war was waged with
little dedication from Rome. 206 Rome abandoned the Aetolians,
who were conquered by Philip. Aetolians never forgave Rome.
3. With whom did Philip V plot to take on the rest of the Eastern
Mediterranean powers? To whom did Egypt, Rhodes and Pergamum appeal
for help when attacked? How did the Romans justify their declaration of
war? Where was the major battle that decided the Second Macedonian War?
What was the outcome of the war for Macedon and the Greek cities?
Philip and Anitochus the Great, king of the Seleucid Empire,
agreed to wage war on their common enemies and split the gains.
Rome but Rome didn’t have a good reason for war.
The fetials set impossible conditions for Philip to meet, if he
wanted to avoid war with Rome: He had to free his Greek subjects
and not wage war on the Greeks in Asia Minor.
Cynoscephalae (Dog’s Heads) in 197, under T. Quinctius
Flamininus.
Philip had to abandon all his holdings outside of Macedonia and
leave the Greeks free of Macedonian rule.
