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Engineering An Empire: Greece: Age of Alexander

In 438 BC the Parthenon was completed. This masterpiece is the crowning achievement for the Greek people. Without Alexander the Great, it is possible Greece's Golden Era would have been just a footnote in history. Tens of thousands would die during Alexander's relentless attacks on Persia and Egypt, yet, his armies carried Greek life, culture and values far abroad and this empire became known as the "Hellenistic" world. Greece's amazing engineering achievements and ideas are still with us today.

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[DocumentaryMacedonia]

Term barbarian Alexander used for Persians:

Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimonians and of the Corinthians…and of all the Hellenic peoples, join your fellow-soldiers and entrust yourselves to me, so that we can move against the barbarians and liberate ourselves from the Persian bondage, for as Greeks we should not be slaves to barbarians.

- As quoted in the Historia Alexandri Magni of Pseudo-Kallisthenes,1.15.1-4

[QTMakGirl]

@Macedonia1ful

thats right. The Macedonains slaughtered the Greeks in the Lamian war for instance. Clearly distinguishes the difference

[Macedonia1ful]

b) ancient Greeks also called the Persians barbarians. Are we suppose to say now, based on the modern Greek "logic", that the Persians were also a Greek tribe ?

Ancient Greeks called all non-Greeks barbarians, and the modern Greek argument can simply not be true, and is quite frankly ridiculous. It does however, prove that modern Greek writers would go to make the Macedonians forcefully Greek, steel the Macedonian history, and even rewrite the feelings of thier ancient Greek ancesters.

[JogaBonitofootball]

Hi Freshmen History Class watching this. This is awkward.... meep