Macedonia
Geography- rought terrain, cold climate, lived in valleys in mountains.
Not see eye to eye- Macedonia nobles reffer themselves to greeks. Greeks thought they were barbaric and not civilized. Greeks treated sparta that way.
Changes- After peloponnesian War Greek city states were weak economically and militaristically. Macedonia took advantage of the weakness in the city states.
Leadership- Phillip the second was king around 360 B.C., only 23 when king, Brilliant general, train peasants into warrioirs, dream was taking over greece and avenge hte persian invasion of greece in 480 B.C, invade persia.
Phillip Tactics- Phalanxes of 16 by 16 instead of 10, 256 men would have to work together for this formation to work correctly, after the phalanx broke threw the enemies lines he would send in cavalary to crush the others.
Conquest for Greece- Athenian orator named Demosthenes tried to warn Greeks of the threat from phillip and told them to prepare an army, city states of Greece couldn't come up with united response, Athens and Thebes decided to stand up to phillip but it was to late, Greek independence was lost to king phillip of macedonia.
New Leader- Phillips next agenda was to invade Persia, never able to do this cause stabbed at daughters wedding by former guardsman, His son alexander the great proclaimed himself the king of macedonia.
Alexander the Great- was taught by Aristotle, spread hellenistic culture, very intellectual, kept a copy of the lliad under his pillow to remind him of achilles in the trojan war, Wanted to show his power early, Thebes people rebelled and then he destroyed their city and took 6,000 lives, survivors were sold as slaves, only the priest didn't have to become slaves.
Invasion of Persia- Greece was secured so he went to invade persia, marched with 35,000 men to attack persia, persia rushed 40,000 men to meet alexander at Aratolia, Alexander attacked first with his calavry, very effective and defeat the persians, That victory alarmed Persian king Darius the third, Response was to raise a huge army between 50,000 to 75,000, Alexander knew he was outnumbered so he called for a suprise attack with his best troops in order to go straight for the persian king, the Persian king fled and so did his army.
Daily Blog: I don't believe he needed to go to the extent that he did. Just cause they stood up to his father Phillip and didn't respond quickly is no reason to go kill 6,000 people. Alexander wanted to show his power bad because his dad. His dad told him as a little boy that he would have great power someday and he has too much power for macedonia, and that he needed to find a bigger area to rule. Alexander then wanted to seek out what his father had said about him and that caused him and his army to invade Thebes.
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