Macedonia
Geography
- rough terrain and cold climate
- Similar to Athens
- People lives in mountain villages instead of city- states
- Different from Athens
Not Seeing Eye to Eye
- Most of Macedonian nobles refered themselves as Greeks
- Greeks though Macedonians er barbarc and not cilivied Greeks
Changes
- After the Pelonnesian War severla Greek City- states were very week
- Economical
- Militaristically
- When someone is week or struggling, preditors come take advandages in them. ie Macedonia
Macedonian Leadership
- Phillip II- king around 360 BC
- only 23 when king
- Brilliant general
- Trained peasents into worriors
- Dreamed to take over Greece and avenge the Persian Invasion of Greece in 489 Bc
- Phillip used the Phalanxes
- 16 x16, 256 men had to work together throught for formation to work
- After Phalanx broke through enemeud line he would send cavary
Conquest for Greece
- Athenians orator named Demostened tried to war the Grreks about the treat of Philip
- City- States did not see eye to eye and couldnt respond
- Athens decides to stand up too lat
- Greeks indepence was Mecedonian
New Leader
- Next was to invade Persia
- Not able to do this
- Daughter;s wedding, he was stabbed in the back and died by a formal general
- Alexander the Great his son became the new leader
Alexander the Great
- Taught by Aristotle
- Spread Hellenistic culture
- Very intellectual
- Showed early power- broke a horse that no one could
- Thebes rebelled and he killed 6000 lives and took people to become slaves exect for priests
Invade Persia
- Greece secured went to Persia
- 35,000 men to attack Persia
- 40,000 men from Persia at Anatolia
- Alexander switched tactics. Started with calvary and defeated the Persians
- Victory alarmed Persian King Darius III
- King wanted to raise a huge army 50- 75,000
- Alex knew he was out #ed but surprised attacked straight to the king
- Darios III fled and so did the army
At the begining of the year, we were tought a quote, "the winners write history". I believe that Alexander the Great punished the The Thebes were defeated, and Alexander could have done a lot worse. I think that he was not to harsh because the Thebes revolted. If not given a punishment, they could have regained more power and try to revolt again. I also think that in the eyes of the people of that time, they would not see eye to eye as we do today. Some supporters of Alexander the Great might think he was to harse and some to easy. I think that it was bad that he killed 6,000 men and put some into slavery, but more leaders have done a lot worse. Because the Thebes lost their story was not told.
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