Acient Greece

For the Last couple of weeks, we talk about Ancient Greece.   In Ancient Greece mostly men ran the government.   The Greek woman had very little freedom outside of the home. The geek kids were consider “youths” until the age of 30. As you can see Ancient Greece is totally different then it is now.   What stands out the most, is the one and only “Alexander the Great”.   Alexander was born in 365BC in a city called Pella. This is the ancient capital of Macedonia. Alexander is the son of the Great Phillip 2nd, King of Macedonia, and Olympias, the princess of Epirus.   Throughout Alexander childhood, he watched his father win Victoria after Victoria, and lead Macedonia through great wars.   When he was 13, Philip hired the Greek philosopher Aristotle to be Alexander’s personal tutor.   During the next three years Aristotle gave Alexander training in rhetoric and literature and stimulated his interest in science, medicine, and philosophy, all of which became of importance in Alexander’s later life. In 336 BC King Philip 2nd was assassinated by a bodyguard. Everyone thinks that Alex mother, Olympias may have set this up. The new King became Alexander 3rd.   Philip 2nd conquered most of Greek city-states, but when Alex took over, the Greeks hated him just like they hated his father. Alexander means to be an even greater conqueror than his father.
In the late 334 BC, Alexander Set it off,   Alexander and the rest of his army march all day long. In the army there were 25,000 Macedonians, 7,600 Greeks, and 7,000 Thracians and Illyrians. The march last about 15 miles every day. I can see how the army stay fit. Alexander then led the army south across Asia Minor.   Ironically,   the Greek coastal cities gave the greatest resistance to the Macedonians.   The Greek commander Memnon and his men considerably slow down the advance of Alexander and many Macedonians died during the long and difficult sieges of the Greek cities of Halicarnassus, Miletus, Mylasa.   But at the end the Macedonian...