Amy Martinez, Regina Landolt, Maria Donado, Jane Chang, Giselle Toledo, Stacey Billime

Philip of Macedonia Time LINE

• Philip III had Aristotle tutor his son Alexander
• Philip made a lot of improvements to the traditional hoplite formation
• He increased the power and morality of his force by giving his soldiers longer spears and less armor.
• He used infantry and cavalry
• He had his engineers develop new kinds of siege equipment
• He had the first catapults
• In 338 BCE he defeated a coalition of Southern States @ Charonaea
• Established the League of Corinth as an instrument for controlling the Greek city states.
• He was the military commander against Persia
• was assigned in 336 BCE

Alexander the Great and what he left behind

Link to Map of Alexandrian Empire

*Main Goal was to seek out for revenge for Xerxes’ invasion about a century and a half ago. <prof. note: no, it was to follow his father Philip’s plan to invade Persia and expand his empire>

*Alexander at 32 yrs old died, and left the empire in chaos.

* His officers were struggling for control of power in the Empire

* This resulted in to breaking it up into 3 major kingdoms:

1. Seleucid

2. Ptolemaic

3. Antigonid

* Each ruled by a Macedonian dynasty. There were at times problems that each individual Kingdom came across, and sometimes problems or feuds between the kingdoms, but the power was roughly balanced so that know one specific kingdom would overrule or gain too much power.

* This age is referred to as the: Hellenistic Age lands of the Northeastern Africa and Western Asia were brought together under Greek rule. These areas were powerfully influenced by Greek culture.

* This age consisted of a big set of cities with diverse populations and powerful rulers with dispersed bureaucracies. There was a great yearning for a smaller city. Independent city- States and a homogeneous population such like the ones of classical Greece.