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1. Who did Alexander need to get onside to help him consolidate his position as the new king of Macedon?

Antipater and Parmenio.

2. Which relatives of Parmenio were appointed to important positions by Alexander?

Parmenio’s sons were appointed to key positions, and also his son in law and a friend.

3. What did Alexander need to do first on coming to power?

He purged possible rivals to the throne, including the execution of Attalus. He needed to secure Greece, so had to put down rebellions in Thebes and Athens.

4. What reasons did Alexander have for invading Persia?

There were several:

to finish what his father had started (and to outdo him)
to deter the Persians from expanding west into Greece
revenge for the Persian Wars a century before
the accession of a new Persian king (the previous king, Artaxerxes III had died in 338, so the Persian empire may have been vulnerable.

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