Alexander the Great's Conquests in Asia Occurred Despite

question 50

Multiple Choice

Alexander the Great's conquests in Asia occurred despite

• A) his having no military expertise prior to his father's assassination.
• B) the Persian king Darius III's refusal to make any peace settlements and resort to guerilla warfare.
• C) the lack of a strong cavalry and inability to capture Egypt.
• D) his eventual difficulties in convincing his troops to fight so far from home.
• E) violent opposition back in Greece by most of the city-states.

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Definitions:

Normal Faults

A type of fault where the hanging wall moves down relative to the footwall due to tensile (pulling apart) stress in the Earth's crust.

Oblique-Slip Faults

Faults that exhibit both vertical (dip-slip) and lateral (strike-slip) movement, combining features of normal, reverse, and transform faults.

Normal Fault

A type of fault where the hanging wall slides downward relative to the footwall, typically caused by extensional forces.

Reverse Fault

A type of fault where the hanging wall moves upward relative to the footwall, typically associated with compressional stress.