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Ancient Greece

 

Athens, with the Delian League, rose to become the dominant Grecian army, and with the help of Sparta would defeat the Persian forces. However, even though fighting for the same purpose against Persia, tension between Athens and Sparta would grow until fighting escalated into the Peloponnesian War a half century later. During the early 400's, Persia would assist Sparta in finally defeating Athens which was led by Pericles for years. Sparta put "30 Tyrants" to control Athens which led to constant civil unrest during the late 300'sB.C. During this time Greece was seriously unstable, until two kings turned everything around.
             359 - 323B.C, Phillip II, and Alexander the Great, Phillips II son, along with the community of Macedonia would turn Greece from an unstable society into a international powerhouse. Macedonia was a not a city-state community, and by 338, Phillip II would bribe, fight, and argue his way to being acknowledged by Greece that he was the one leader. Philip II had ambitions of attacking Persia for having attacked Greece back in 480B.C, but was murdered by a Macedonia nobel. His successor, his son, would follow in footsteps with the same ambitions and was successful. Alexander the Great conquered present day Turkey to Afghanistan to Egypt all by the age of 20. Unfortunately, he died in 323B.C due to the illness, leaving the commanders of the army to fight for portions of the Powerhouse.
             Following the death of these two great kings, 3 successor kings (Antigonus I, Seleucus I, and PtolemyI) divvied up the lands of Greece. The three kings constantly fought with each other over territory and trade issues. In the mean time, while these three kings would fight amongst themselves, other kingdoms simultaneously started to grow and expand. This time period is considered Hellenistic Greece which basically lasted from 323B.C - 32B.C. Because these kingdoms were ruled by the Macedonian's, the people of Greece were rather unhappy as they remember the time when they had their freedom which had stripped from them, Hence, there was always a constant conflict within the city walls.


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