CH 68 - GUIDED NOTES

THE MACEDONIAN CONQUERORS

Between 404 and 336 BC, ten thousand Greeks escape from Persia, and a Macedonian
takes on the task of creating Greek unity
 “The _____________________ Escape”
-___________ ruined from Pel. Wars
-___________ almost ruined
Many become ____________ for
Cyrus (II)
-Cyrus ____to overthrow Artaxerxes II
@ Battle of Cunaxa
-The March of the _______________
______________________retreat
from Cunaxa to Black Sea
Shows Persia’s _____________
-Persia loses ___________________
The _____________________________ War

 399 BC, ___________ is sentenced to death

 Taught _____________________
 Friend of evil one of The Thirty

 Sparta ____________________ on swapping

Ionian cities for Persian gold
 _________Thebes, _______Argo vs. _______
 ______________________________________
 Artaxerxes demands Athens and Sparta stop
 It _______________________

 And Artaxerxes II fails to get Egypt back

 (Nectanebo I’s smart Nile trick)

Portrait of Artaxerxes II
By Bruce Allardice - This file has been extracted from another file: Artaxerxes II relief.jpg, CC
BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=75195767
_____________________________________

 Gk. ____________, not empire building to

save them (p. 575)
 Isocrates (_______________)
 Gk. Because of “________________”
not birth (p757)
 Gk. Because of ruled by consent

Isokratous Apanta (1570)

By Isocrates - Available in the BEIC digital library and uploaded in
partnership with BEIC Foundation., Public Domain,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=50373088
Philip of Macedonia

 3rd son
 Used as a _______________2x as a kid
 Illyria (10 yrs. Old)
 Thebes (15 yrs. Old)

 Became king at __________

 Beats
 Illyria
 Thebes
 Thrace’s gold and silver mines

 Son, ____________________
 Bucephalus the stallion story

Philip II gold stater, with head of Apollo

By PHGCOM - self-made, photographed at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, CC BY-SA 4.0,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3073407
Philip of Macedonia
Map of the territory of Philip II of Macedon
_____________________________
Macedon beats __________
____________ wins the day
_____________________________
Like the Delian League
But with Philip as the
commander (580)
Oh the drama!
Philip dies
_________________becomes
the regent then king
And gets his revenge

By Map_Macedonia_336_BC-es.svg: Marsyas (French original); Kordas (Spanish translation)derivative

work: MinisterForBadTimes (talk) - Translation of Map_Macedonia_336_BC-es.svg (data from R.
Ginouvès and al., La Macédoine, Paris, 1992), CC BY-SA 3.0,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7398609