today we are taking notes. Mr. Hoch is posting his powerpoint later today
Might test on how the athens macedonia and sparta were treated differently
Macedonia
- had rouch terrain like athens
- colder climate than athens and sparta
- lived in more villages rather than city states
- their nobles reffered to themselves as greeks
- but the greeks thought they were barbaric rather than civiled greeks
- greeks treated sparta this way
- city-states were very week because of how the peloponnesian war
- around 360 BC Phillip II became the king at 23 years old
- he was very intellegent, used phalanex fighting formation, made it cheap so pesants were able to aford to fight, wanted to invade greece to have military power
- he increased the size of the phalanex to 16x16 instead of 10x10 but still very disorganized
- Athenian orator named Demosthenes tried to warn greeks of Phillip it was too late king Phillip won
- Phillip was giong to invade Persia but got stabbed and killed in the back at his daughter wedding
- his son Alexander the great declared being king a few seconds after his dad died
- Alexander The Great
- was very intellectual, kept a copy of the Iliad under his pillow to remind him of the heroic of Achilles in the Trojan War
- showed his power at first by taiming a very unrully horse
- when the people of Thebes rebelled he burned down the city, enslaved everybody except the preist, the survivors were sold into slavery to show that he had power and wasn't going to get messed with
- he wanted to invated persia he had 35,000 men and persia had 40,000 he tried a different fighting tactic that used speed catching the persians off guard and he won and they fled
- the vicotry alarmed the persian king Darius III
- Alexander knew he was outnumbered so he decided to use a different method of surprise and go straight for the king
- was effective and the king and his army fled
Do you think that Alaxnder should have punished the people of Thebes so harshly? Why or why not?
In many ways yes that was the right thing to do, because he was only one person as a ruler so with the Thebes rebelling and causing a lot of trouble if he didn't do something right away other could get the idea that they could just rebell to get their way. If this happened he could be greatly outnumbered and at a higher risk of losing his position as king causing great chaos. So to show power that he was in charge and was the one to be followed and not messed with he needed to do it. But on the other hand not everybody in Thebes could have been rebelling for him to go in right away and take away everything they ever had and owned capturing them and selling them as slaves. With this act he could have become very disliked by many people but Alexander was a smart man.
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