Macedonia:
Geography
-rough terrain, mountainous, cold climate.
-people lived mostly in mountain villages instead of city-states like greece.
Not seeing eye to eye
-most of the macedonians referred to themselves as greeks.
-greeks thought that the macedonians were barbaric and not as civilixzed as the greeks.
Changes
-after the peloponnesian war several city-states were very weak
-economy
-militaristically
Macedonian Leadership
-PHILLIP II was king of macedonia around 360 bc
-only 23 when he became king.
-briliant general.
-was able to train peasants into warriors
-his dream was to take over greexe and avenge the persian invasion of greece in 480 bc.
-invade persia
Phillip's Tactics
-organized his army into phlanxes of 16x16
-all 256 men had to work toether for this formation to work correctly
-after the phlanx had broken through the enemy's line, he would then send in calvary to crush the disorganized or retreating opponents.
Conquest for Greece
-Demosthenes tried to warn the greeks o the threat of phillip and told them to prepare an army.
-the city-states of greece couldn't come up with a united response
-athens and thebes decided to standup to phillip, but it was too late
-greek independence was lost to king phillip.
New Leader
-next on phillip's agenda was to invade persia
-he was never able to do this
-he was stabbed by one of his former guards at his daughter's wedding
-his son proclaimed himself the king
-he was later known as ALEXANDER THE GREAT
Alexander the great
-was taught by aristotle
-spread Hellenistic culture
-very intelligent, kept a copy of the iliad under 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
-survivors were sold into slavery; only the priests were spared from becoming slaves
Invasion of persia
-alexander marched with 35,000 men to attack persia
-persians rushed in wih 40,000 men to meet alexander in anatolia
-alexander decided to attack first, and with his calvary, defeated the persians
-alarmed daruis 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 attack with his best troops and ordered them to go straight to the persian king
-the persian king fled and so did his army
Do you think that Alexander should have punished people of Theves so harshly? Why or why not?
No. He took 6,000 lives. He is their king and is supposed to care about them and try to make their lives the best that he can make it. To me, this harsh punishment of him trying to show his power, comes off as power hungry! No one wants a leader who only wants to be a leader to be at the top. You want a leader that will make the best decisions for the whole "team", not just for themselves. Also, you want a leader that cares, because if they don't act like they care, then they probably don't. Alexander didn't seem like he cared when he killed 6,000 of HIS PEOPLE'S lives! Not cool , bro.
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