Macedonia:
-Macedonia had a rough terrain and a cold climate
-the people lived mostly in mountain villages instead of the city-states like Athens had
Not seeing eye to eye:
-most of the macedonia nobles refered to thmeselves as Greeks
-once again the greeks thought that the macedonians were barbaric and not as civilized as the greeks
-what other civilization did the greeks treat this way? =the spartans
Changes:
-after the peloponnesian war several greek city-states were very weak:
-Economically
-militarstically
-When there is weakness or a struggle there is usually a predator or someone else to take advantage of the opportunitu. in this case, it was macedonia
Macedonian leadership:
-Phillip II was the king of th Macedonia around 360 B.C
-only 23 would when he bacame 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
Phillips Tactics:
-phillip organized his army into phalanxes of 16 men across by 16 men deep
-all 256 men had to work together for this formation to work correctly
-after the phalanx had broke through the enemys line, he would then send in cavalry to crush the disorganized or retreating opponets
Conquest for Greece:
-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 couldn't come up with united response
-finally, athens and thebes deide to standup to Phillip but it was too late
-greek independence was lost ot king phillip of macedonia
New leader:
-next on phillips agenda was to invade persia
-however, he was never able to do this
-at his daughters wedding, hew as sabbed in stabbed t odeath by one of his former guardsman
-his son immediatley proclaimed himself the king of macedonia. hi name was alexander, later know as alexander the great
Alexander the great:
-was taught by Aristotle
-spread hellenistic culture
-very intellectua, kept a copy of the lliad undr his pillow to remind him of the heroic achilles in the trojan war
-alexander wanted to show his power early, and when the people of thebes rebelled, he destroyed their city and took 6,000 lives.
-the survivors were sold into slavery, only priests were spared form becoming slaves
invasion of persia:
-alexander was now ready to invade persia now that he greece was secure
-alexander marched with 35,000 men to meet alexander at anatolia
-alexander decide to atack first and with his cavalry, very effective and defeated the persians
-that victory alarmed the persian king Darius III
-His response was to raise a huge army ranging between 50,000-75,000 men
-alexander knew he was outnumbered so he called for a surprise atack with his best troops and ordered them to go striaght to the persian king
-the persian king fled and so did his army
Blog:
-do you think that alexander should have punished the thebes so harshly? why or why not
I don't think he should have punished the Thebes so harshly. Since he killed so many people, it makes him look like a monster instead of a leader who cares about the country. Although killing them did show them who was boss, destroying a city just wasn't the way to go in my opinion. People would begin to hate him and his harsh punishments. If the people are unhappy and hate there leader, they could rise up and try to defeat him which would make him look pretty bad.
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