macedonia. had rough terrain and a cold climate. the people lived msotly in mountain viliages instead pf the city/states like athens had. most of the maco nobles referred to themselves as greeks. once again the greeks thought that the macr were babrbaric and not civilized as the greeks. after the peloponnesian war several greek city/states were very weak. economically militarism. whever there i a weakness or struggle macedomania was taking over the city/staes bc of power. phillip 2 was the king of macedonia around 360 b.c. only 23 would beame king. brilliant general. was able to train peasents into warriors. his dream was to take over greece and advenge the persian invasion of greece in 480 b.c. invade persia. phillip organized into phalixes of 16 men across 16 men deep. all 256 men had to work together for this formation to work correctly. after phalax had broke through the enemys line he would send in the calvary to crush the remaing soldiers. an athensian orator named demosthenes tries to warn the greeks of the threat of phillip and told them to prepare an army. however the city/state of greece couldnt come up with united response. finally athens and thebes decide to standup tp phillup but it was to late. greek independence was lost to king phillip of macedonia. next on phillips agenda was to invade persia. however he was never able to do this. at his daughters wedding he was stabbed and stabbed to death by one of his former gaurds man. his son emediatley proclaimed himself the new king. was taught by aristotle. spread hellenistic culture. very intellectual kept a copy of the lliad under his pillow to remind him of the heroic of achilles. alexander wanted to show his power at an early age and when the people of thebes reblled he desroyed their city and took 6k lives. the survivors were osld into slavery except the priest. alexander was now ready to invade persia now that the greece was secure. alander marched 35k men to attack persia. persian rushed 40k men to meet aleander at antoia. alenader decided to attack first then win. changed his name to darius the 3rd. his respionse was to raise and amry between 50k and 75k men. alexander knew he was outnumbered but he brought.
i think he did everything right except when he sold the people to slavery not a good idea because that tells his own people he will do the same to them.
the reasoning for that is your gonna do something to an ennemythere a big chance u will do it to your own people. like if u fight people you will prob fight ur own people especially when ur mad or somethin. if he would of jsut imprsioned them ti would fo been better and would fo been worse for the bad people. they would have to live in dirty places and eat bad food and jsut horrible lives.
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