║Fill the words in the following paragraph: [ crisis, opportunity, command, convened, simultaneously, Dominating, political ]

║Fill the words in the following paragraph:
[ crisis, opportunity, command, convened, simultaneously, Dominating, political ]
The conquests of Alexandros the Great
In the autumn of 335 B.C.E., Alexander (1) ________________ the Greek alliance, fixing the goals of the expedition to Asia. Before that in 336 BC, more than 10,000 Macedonian troops, under the (2) ________________ of Parmenion and Attalos, obeyed the orders of Philippos II to establish a foothold in Asia Minor in the area near Troia. Alexander urged the expedition to speed up the expedition because the established Macedonian position in the enemy’s land was wavering.
At first, the Greek city-states rebelled (3) ________________ until the sudden death of Philippos. Macedonian soldiers heard that the king had lost his dignity quickly and was defeated by the Achaemenes army under the command of the Greek mercenary Memnon of Rhodos near Magnesia. Alexander also intended to take this occasion from the tutelage of Antiparos, who was appointed Regent of Macedonia while the king was away. (4) _________________ the three armies by himself, he would be able to oust Parmenion and his powerful family.
Both generals thought that Alexander should get married before leaving the army, in case of an internal (5) _________________ that occurred when the king died without a child. At this time, Alexander was very young, but proved to be very charismatic and possessed more political mind and military abilities than anyone. The war with the northern barbarian tribes went far beyond what King Philippos had achieved while his decision to destroy Thebes had left the entire Greeks subject to him. However, he took over the policies that his father initiated and the military apparatus his father forged, while at the same time placing his trust in generals loyal to him. He took this (6) ________________ to launch an expedition, at the same time, he also used this conquest to shift the views of the anti-Macedonian Greeks to the other direction, and also to ease the economic and (7) ________________ crisis, the rule in Greek city-states.

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  1. 1:simultaneously

    2:command

    3:convend

    4:crisis

    5:opportunity

    6:poltical

    7:dominating

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