Macedonia- rough terrain, mountainous, cold people lived in villages instead of city states macedonians saw themselves as greeks- greeks thought of them as barbaric treated sparta the same way after pelopenisian war the economy and military very weak in the greek city states. Pelopenisian-Delian league headed by Athens v. Pelopenisian league headed by Sparta. sparta won. Macedonia took advantage of this weakness. Phillip II king of Macedonia 23 when became king great general could train peasants to warriors dreamed of taking over greece and to invade persia worked in phalanxes 256 men after phalanx broke enemy lines he'd send in the cavalry Demosthenes tried to warn greeks of Phillip II city states couldn't agree Athens and Thebes decided to fight too late Greek independence was lost to Macedonia. Phillip never got the chance to invade persia killed at his daughters wedding his son alexander declared himself king, Alexander the Great taught by aristotle, extremely smart, wanted to spread Hellenistic cultures showed his power early when Thebes rebelled he killed 6000- survivors were sold into slavery minus the priests invaded persia with 30000 men against 40000 persians at anatolia attacked first with cavalry very effectively defeating the persians persian king, Darius the third scared sent a response of 50000 to 75000 men Alexander was outnumbered sent a surprise attack straight at the king Persian king and army fled while others were killed
Yes, I believe it was a worthy punishment. Since he had taken over Greece, he was now their ruler. Since he was powerful enough to take over all of Greece he should be treated with respect. If there is a rebellion against the government of the area it should be struck down in a quick manner as to not give other sections the idea that it is okay to rebel. The easiest way he saw to strike it down was to kill the rebelling force and make sure none of the others were able to try it again. This effectively silenced the rebelling forces.
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