The Rise of Alexander the Great :
in 334 BC Alexander king of Macedonia began one of the greatest military campaigns in history against the superpower of the age the Persian Empire the 20 years old is brilliant and fearless leadership won him battle after battle and in an astonishing 10-year campaign that took him to the edge of the new world he carved out one of the largest Empires ever known few men have had such a massive impact on the course of history to the Persians he was Alexander the accursed but to the West he was immortalized as Alexander the Great ancient Greece from around 500 BC this rugged land was the scene of remarkable developments in art philosophy and warfare it’s two greatest city-states were Athens a naval power where democracy art drama and philosophy flourished and Sparta an austere militaristic Society famed for its formidable army in 480 BC these two city states have joined forces to fight an invasion by the mighty Persian Empire at the narrow pass of Thermopylae.
From Persian Invasion to Macedonian Dominance :
a small Greek Force led by 300 Spartans held up the enormous Persian army for 3 days before they were finally in circled and killed then in the Straits of Salamis the Greek Fleet defeated the Persian navy but they couldn’t prevent the Persians burning the sacred temples of the Athenian Acropolis the next year at protea the Greeks won a decisive land battle against the Persians and forced them to abandon their invasion the next 50 years were the Golden Age of Classical Greece But Rising tension between Athens and Sparta and their allies eventually led to war dragging the Greek world into Decades of destructive fighting walls between the Greek city-states continued for almost a century leaving them exhausted and vulnerable to a New Rising power to the north for centuries sophisticated Greeks had viewed the mountainous Kingdom of Macedonia as a Backwater Hicksville barely Greek at all but under King Philip the second Macedonia emerged as a formidable military force his most famous reform the introduction of the sarissa an 18 ft Pike twice the length of a normal Greek Spear and wielded by trained infantry fighting in close formation known as a phalanx.
Philip II’s Rise to Power :
in 338 BC at the Battle of kieronaire Phillips Army crushed The Joint Forces of Thieves and Athens through Alliance and Conquest Philip had already gained control over most of his neighbors now following this Victory he United all Greece in an alliance known as the Hellenic League or League of currents with philippa’s hegemon or Supreme Commander only Sparta stood aside Philip began to plan a great campaign a panhellenic or old Greek war against the Persian Empire they’re old foe was now an ailing superpower it’s great riches right for the taking but on the eve of launching his War Philip was assassinated by his own bodyguard victim of macedonia’s brutal Court rivalries he was succeeded by his 20 year old(5 :08) Did by his 20 year old son Alexander brilliant Restless tutored by the great philosopher Aristotle and already an experienced military commander Alexander inherited his father’s grand plan to invade Persia but first he had to secure his own position as king at home he had potential Rivals executed then crushed rebellions in Elyria thesley and Central Greece he made a special example of Thieves completely destroying the ancient city and selling its people into slavery.