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Actually looked upon as sort of “barbarian cousins” by the Greeks of Athens, Sparta, etc.  \n• King Philip II of Macedonia  \n– Expanded his territory north to the Danube River and south into the Greek peninsula  \n– Conquered all city-states except Sparta by 338 B.C.E.  \n– Killed while planning to attack Persia (336 B.C.E.)  \nAlexander the Great  \n• Tutored by the philosopher Aristotle  \n• Precarious position because his mother was not Macedonian (making Alexander half Macedonian), and his father took a Macedonian as a new wife  \n• Wanted to conquer Persia like his father  \n• Wanted to spread Greek culture throughout the world  \nAlexander the Great  \n• Philip was killed by companions of Alexander  \n• Alexander came to the throne at age 20 (336  \nB.C.E.  \nAlexander the Great  \n• First put down local revolts, including destroying Thebes  \n• Invasion of Persia and beyond  \n– 35,000 troops  \n– Granicus (334 B.C.E.)  \n– Issus (333 B.C.E.)  \n– Arbela (331 B.C.E.)  \n– City-states along the Mediterranean  \n• Phoenician Tyre  \n– Egypt  \n• Founded Alexandria  \n– India  \n• Reached Indus River  \n– Set up capital in Babylon (located in modern-day Iraq) in 324  \nB.C.E.  \n• Died of a fever in 323 [B.C.E. at](B.C.E. at) age 33  \nAlexander’s Empire  \n• Fell apart after Alexander’s death  \n• Generals fought for control of empire  \n• Empire divided  \n– Egypt – Ptolemy  \n– Most of Asian empire – Seleucus  \n– Macedonia and Greece – Antigonus  \n• New dynasties ruled for hundreds of years until conquered by Rome  \nAlexander’s Impact on World History  \n• Spread Greek culture beyond the Greeks  \n– “Pan-Hellenism”  \n– Founded numerous cities  \n– Married a daughter of Darius  \n• Encouraged his soldiers to take Persian wives  \n– Worshiped foreign gods and goddesses  \n• Recognized as foreign incarnations of Greek gods  \n– Encouraged trade throughout his empire  \n– Settled Greeks throughout his empire  \n• Greek culture became “Hellenistic” as it spread and mingled with other cultures  \nAlexandria, Egypt  \n• City in Egypt founded by, and named after, Alexander the Great  \n• Ptolemy came to rule Egypt after Alexander’s death  \n• Ptolemies built a university in Alexandria –“Library of Alexandria”  \n– Included 700,000 volumes written on papyrus  \n– Center of research and scholarship","cbCaihAQdpCvtVaM","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaihAQdpCvtVaM","pdf",1261898,18,"English","# Macedonia\n## King Philip II of Macedonia\n# Alexander the Great\n## Early life and goals\n## Campaigns and conquest\n## Alexander’s empire after his death\n# Alexander’s Impact on World History\n## Cultural spread and intermarriage\n# Alexandria, Egypt\n## Ptolemies and scholarship (Library of Alexandria)","[{\"question\":\"How were Macedonians viewed by Greek city-states according to the handout?\",\"answer\":\"Macedonians were culturally and ethnically related to the Greeks, but Greeks of Athens, Sparta, and others regarded them as “barbarian 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