| A | B |
|---|
| The name of the Persian royal family | Achaemenid |
| Alexander restored this defeated opponent's kingdom to him | Porus |
| Name of the Spartan king who led a revolt against Macedonia in 331; he was killed in battle | Agis III |
| The mother of Alexander | Olympias |
| This man was Alexander's official historian (and possibly the world's first spin-doctor) | Callisthenes |
| Alexander very close friend who died in 324, possibly from excessive drinking. Alexander was overcome with grief | Hephaestion |
| The son of Parmenio, he was found guilty of plotting against Alexander and executed -possibly by stoning to death | Philotas |
| This man was killed by Alexander shortly after Alexnder claimed the throne; he was Philip's son-in-law | Amyntas |
| Assassinated in 336 by Pausanius | Philip II |
| This famous Athenian orator made a series of savage speches condeming Philip II and Macedonia | Demosthenes |
| he saved Alexander's life at the battle of the Granicus; years later Alexander killed him in a drunken brawl | Cleitus the Black |
| The father of Roxanne and an important leader in Sogdia | Oxyartes |
| One of the oldest and ablest of the macedonian generals; murdered on Alexander's orders after Alexander executed his son, Philotas | Parmenio |
| The "Great King" of Persia at the time of Alexander's invasion of the Persian empire | Darius III |
| Corrupt treasurer of Alexander's empire; eventually fled to Athens with money.mercenaries and women | Harpalus |
| He killed Darius III & briefly claimed the Persian throne before being captured & executed | Bessus |
| Admiral of the fleet for Alexander | Nearchus |
| Roman historian who wrote about Alexander using some primary sources now lost | Plutarch |
| A general & friend of Alexander who after the latter's death set up a dynasty in Egypt | Ptolemy |
| A Sogdian leader who rebelled against Alexander's rule but was eventually killed | Spitamenes |
