THE EMPIRE OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT

Written by hgwells | Published 2023/01/16
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TLDRFrom 431 to 404 B.C. the Peloponnesian War wasted Greece. Meanwhile to the north of Greece, the kindred country of Macedonia was rising slowly to power and civilization. The Macedonians spoke a language closely akin to Greek, and on several occasions Macedonian competitors had taken part in the Olympic games. In 359 B.C. a man of very great abilities and ambition became king of this little country—Philip. Philip had previously been a hostage in Greece; he had had a thoroughly Greek education and he was probably aware of the ideas of Herodotus—which had also been developed by the philosopher Isocrates—of a possible conquest of Asia by a consolidated Greece.via the TL;DR App

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Written by hgwells | English novelist, journalist, sociologist, and historian best known for such science fiction novels as The Time Machine.
Published by HackerNoon on 2023/01/16