Alexander's Empire

Alexander's Empire (p142-145)

- King Philip II hoped to take control of Greece (became king in 359 BC at the age of 23)
- The Macedonias were a hardy people who lived in mountains
- He organized his troops into phalanxes of 16 men across and 16 deep, each one armed with an 18-foot
- Demosthenes, the Athenian orator, tried to warn the Greeks of the threat Philip and his armed posed
- At Philip's daughter's wedding in 336 BC, he was stabbed to death by a former guardsmen. His son then became king of Macedonia and was known as Alexander the Great
- In 334 BC, he led 35,000 soldiers across the Hellspont into Anatolia
- Leading his troops in battle, Alexander smashed the Persian defenses
- During his time in Egypt, Alexander founded the city of Alexandria at the mouth of the Nile
- Alexander became very ill with a fever and died .a few days later at the age of 32
- Antigonus became King of Macedonia and took control of the Greek city-states
- Ptolemy seized Egypt, took the title of pharaoh, and established a dynasty
- Seleucus took most of the old Persian Empire, which became known as the Seleucid Kingdom