Macedonia had a rough terrain and a cold climate.
the people lived mostly in mountain villages instead of the city-state like athens had.
Most of the Macedonian nobles referred to themselves as greeks
once agian the greeks thought that the Macedonians were barbaric and not as civilized as the greeks.
Changes-
after the peloponnesian war several greek city-states were very weak:
-Economically
-Militaristically
Phillip the 2nd was the king of Macedonia around 360B.C.
-only 23 would he became king.
-brilliant general
-was able to train peasants into warriors.
-His dream was to take over Greece and avenge he Persian invasion of greece in 480B.C.
-invated persia
Phillip organized his army into phalanxes of 16 men across by 16 men deep.
all 256 men had to work together for his formation to work correctly.
an athenian orator named demosthenes tried to warn the greeks of the threat of Phillip and told them to prepare an army.
however, the city-states of greece couldnt come up with united respones.
next on Phillips agenda was to invade persia.
however, he was never able to do this.
at his daughters wedding he was stabbed to death by one of his former guardsman.
his son immediately proclaimed himself the king of macedonia.
alexander the great-
was tought by aristotle
spread Hellenistic culture.
very intellectual, jept a copy of the Iliad under his pillow to remind him of the heroic of achilles in the Trojan war.
Alexander was now ready to invade persia now that the greece was secure.
Alexander marched with 35,000 men to attack persia
persian rushed 40,000 men to meet alexander at anatolia.
That vitory alarmed the persian king, Darius the 3rd
His response was to raise a huge army raning between 50,000 to 75,000 men.
the persian King fled and so did his army.
Daily blog -
Do you think that Alexander should have punished the people of thebes so haarshly? why or why not?
well you see i think he shouldnt of punished them harshly, because the only reason he did that was because he wanted to show them that he had power. so than he sent alot of people to the thebes to hurt them and kill tham.
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