Macedonia had a rough terrain and a cold climate.
the people lived mostly in mountain villages instead of the city-state like athens had.
Most of the Macedonian nobles referred to themselves as greeks
once agian the greeks thought that the Macedonians were barbaric and not as civilized as the greeks.
Changes-
after the peloponnesian war several greek city-states were very weak:
-Economically
-Militaristically
Phillip the 2nd was the king of Macedonia around 360B.C.
-only 23 would he became king.
-brilliant general
-was able to train peasants into warriors.
-His dream was to take over Greece and avenge he Persian invasion of greece in 480B.C.
-invated persia
Phillip organized his army into phalanxes of 16 men across by 16 men deep.
all 256 men had to work together for his formation to work correctly.
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 couldnt come up with united respones.
next on Phillips agenda was to invade persia.
however, he was never able to do this.
at his daughters wedding he was stabbed to death by one of his former guardsman.
his son immediately proclaimed himself the king of macedonia.
alexander the great-
was tought by aristotle
spread Hellenistic culture.
very intellectual, jept a copy of the Iliad under his pillow to remind him of the heroic of achilles in the Trojan war.
Alexander was now ready to invade persia now that the greece was secure.
Alexander marched with 35,000 men to attack persia
persian rushed 40,000 men to meet alexander at anatolia.
That vitory alarmed the persian king, Darius the 3rd
His response was to raise a huge army raning between 50,000 to 75,000 men.
the persian King fled and so did his army.
Daily blog -
Do you think that Alexander should have punished the people of thebes so haarshly? why or why not?
well you see i think he shouldnt of punished them harshly, because the only reason he did that was because he wanted to show them that he had power. so than he sent alot of people to the thebes to hurt them and kill tham.
peace-
after two major battles lost, darius the 2nd was ready to give up same land in hopes that Alexander would stop his conquest.
the macedonian advisors to alexander told him to take the offer, but alexander refused.
alexanders goal was to conquer all the persian empire.
alexander was welcomed iton egypt as a liberator even though egypt was a persian territory
was even crowned a pharaoh.
alexander named a city, alexander after himself, very common for him to do.
alexander still wanted to kill king darius the 3rd of persia so he punrsued him.
this pursuit made him a great conquered but bad at governing land he conquered.
he was eventually found king darius dead.
many thought that one darius was dwad alexander might stop the conquest, they were wrong.
he invated certain areas of india and successful defeat them there as well.
alexander troops had been fighting for a very long time and traveled very far.
-had fought for 11 years.
-had marched 11,000 miles.
-in bad conditons, deserts and even monsoon rains.
when alexander had reached babylon, he announces that he wants to unite his empire by building new cities, roads and harbors and conquer arabia.
he became seriously ill with a fever and died at age of 32.
married a persian princess
he even wore persian dress and presided over mess marriage of his men to perisan woman
very interesting cultural impact-spreading hellenistic culture.
eventually these three generals of alexander got control of his conquered land.
antigonus became the king of mecedonia and took control of the greek city-states.
ptolemy seized egypt, took the title of pharaoh, and began a dynasty.
Seleucid got control over the old persian empire. he didnt take the democratic approach with him the rulers had all the power not the people.
question-
what is your overall opinion of alexander the great? was he really that special or just a barbaric person who allowed grred to get the best of him?
well i think he was special because we walk all the land and he became king in all of them. he got married to a beautiful woman and had a son alexander the 2nd. if he didnt become king than he wouldnt be known for anything.
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