Today were taking notes on a popwerpoint
Macedonia
Geo
- Had rough terrain and a cold climate
- The people mostly lived in mountian villages instead of the city-states like athens had
Not seeing eye to eye
- Most of the Macedonia nobles referred to themselves as Greeks
- Once again the Greeks thougt that the Macedonia were barbaric and not as cicilized as the Greeks
- What other civil. did the greeks treat this way? spartans
Changes
- After peloponnesian war several greek city-states were very weak
-economically
-militaristically
- When there is weakness or a struggle there is usually a predator or someone else taking advantage of the opportunity, in this case it was Macedonia
Macedonian Leadership
- Phillip II was the king of M around 360 B.C
- Only 23 when he becam king
- Brilliant general
- Was able to train peasants into warriors
- His dream was to take over Greece and avenge the Persian invasion of Greece in 480 B.C
- Invade Persia
- Phillip organized his army into phalanxes of 16 men across 16 men deep
- All 256 men had to work together for his formation to work correctly
- After the phalanx had broke through the enemies line, he would send in calvary to crush the disorganized or retreating opponets
Conquest for Greece
- An athenian orator named Demoshenes tried to warn the Greeks of the threat of Philip and told them to prepare an army
- The city state of greece couldnt come up with a united response
- When Athens and Thebes decided to stand up it was too late
- Greek independence was lost to King Phillip of Macedonia
New Leader
- Next on his agenda was to invade Persia which never happened because he was stabbed to death at his daughters wedding by one of his former guardsmen
- His son immediately proclaimed himself King and was later known as Alexander the Great
Alex the Great
- Was taught by Aristotle
- Spread Hellenistic culture
- Very intellectual, kept a copy of the Iliad under his pillow to remind him of the heric of Achilles in the trojan war
- Alex wanted to show his power early and when the people of Thebes rebelled, he destroyed their city and took 6,000 lives
- The surviors were sold into slavery only the priest were spared from becoming slaves
- He did this because he wanted to show the theifs he wouldnt put up with them and their crap
Invasion of Persia
- He marched with 35,000 men to attack Persia
- Persian rushed 40,000 men to meet Alex at Anatolia
- Alex decided to attack first with calvary, which was very affective and defeated the Persians
- The victory really alarmed the Persian King, Darius III
- His response was to raise a huge army ranging between 50,000-75,000 men
- Alex was out numbered so he called for a surprise attack which was to go straight to the persian king
- The persian king fled and so did his army
No.
I think he should have punished only the ones who deserved to be punished. Not the whole city. I dont think he should have destroyed the whole city either. He should have dealt with only the ones who needed to be dealt with, and should hvae left the bystanders alone.
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