Macedonia
- Geography
- Macedonia had rough terrine and a cold climate
- People lived in mountain villages
- Refered to themselves as greeks
- Greeks did not think they were greek
- The greeks also throught of Sparta this way
- Changes
- After the paloponisan civil war, several Greek city states were very week
- Economically
- Militilastically
- When there is weakenss, some one takes advantage of it, in this case it was macadonia
- Macadonian leadership
- Phillape 2 was king around 360 bc
- Only 23 when took power
- Brilliant general
- Able too train pesants into warriors
- Because of iron
- Phillape 2 was king around 360 bc
- Dream was to take over grece and avenge the persians
- And to invade Persia
- Used phalanxes
- 16 by 16
- All 256 had to work together
- After they broke through the line, he sent in the calvery to crush the disoriented opponents
- Conquest for Greece
- Athenian orator named Demosthenes tried to warn the greeks
- Didn’t have time to come up with a united response
- Finaly Athens and thebes decided to fight, but it was too late
- Macidonia, king phillape won
- New leader
- Next was to conquer pwesia
- Was stabed by a former guard at his daughters wedding
- His son, alexander immiadiatly proclaimed himself king of maceonia
- Alexander the great
- Tought by arisotole
- Spread Hellenistic culture
- Smart, kept illiad under his pillow, his hero was achilles
- Wanted to show his power early
- People of thebes revolted
- Burned the city
- Killed 6000
- Sold the rest into slavery
- After the paloponisan civil war, several Greek city states were very week
- He invaded Persia
- Marched with 35,000 men into Persia
- Faught against 40,000
- Alexander attacked with the cavalry, was very effective
- Darius and xerxes had no blood relation
- Got a bigger army
- 50,000 to 70,000 men
- Knew he was outnumbered
- Did a surprise attack
- Straight at the king
- King fled
- Army fled too
- Macednoian won
Daily blog
Was alexander right in killing Thebes so harshly
Yes.
He had to show his power, by doing this horrific thing; he gained a name for himself. It made the rest of the known world fear him. If he would have killed the entire population, then no word wouldn’t have spread as widely as it did. He did the right thing is sparing the priests as well. This made him seem a little kinder, and due to the deep seated belief that the Greeks held that their gods rewarded them for doing good things, this was partially to look good before the gods
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