Macedonians

by the time he was 25 years old, he had higher ambitions. When he died at age 32, Alexander's empire was the most extensive state of its time, covering approximately 5.2 million square km. Alexander’s most immediate legacy was the introduction of Macedonian rule to large areas of Asia. Although his empire could not survive his death, out of the conflict over succession came four distinct Greek dynasties, Attalid Anatolia, Antigonid Macedon, Seleucid Mesopotamia, and most famously, the Ptolemaic…

In attempt, Martin Luther King Jr. compares and contrasts himself with well-known to how they invoke to his motives and actions at Birmingham. King leaves his home to travel to other places “just as the Apostle Paul, …[he] respond[ed] to the Macedonian call for aid” (357) to which he enters Birmingham to bring focus on segregation in the city. King was “just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create tension in the mind” (359) therefore King took direct action to give commotion toward the…

While confined in a jail in Birmingham, Martin Luther King, wrote a letter to eight clergymen. In the letter, King approached the topic of racism, unfair treatment, and unjust events that had been occurring. As a punishment for his actions of a nonviolent campaign, King was thrown into jail along with several others. To get the idea of racism, unfair treatment, and unjust events, across to the clergymen and later readers, King used many rhetorical devices. Three of the most effective devices he…

Introduction: In 1888, William Flinders Petrie excavated different parts of the sprawling oasis area of Fayum in Alexandria -Egypt- (SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE, 2012). Petrie directed his attention to excavations done in the Pyramid of Amenemhet III (Tour Egypt, n.d.). In the pyramid, hundreds of mummies were found with fascinating portraits of the mummified bodies (SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE, 2012). The funeral portraits are know as the Fayum portraits and were later found all around Egypt (SMITHSONIAN…

of troops in order to be more effective in combat, and a strong cavalry that consisted of two different units, including a unit that fought with Alexander himself. After the death of his father, Alexander made the Macedonian army much larger and made it into a main focus of Macedonian culture. He also commissioned engineers to develop and create new siege weapons. All of his troops were also equipped with very light armor to help them with mobility and allowed Alexander to make adjustments to…

Ancient Greece paper Two Throughout history, there have been many cultures that have influenced todays societies, Ancient Greece being one of them. Violence, and warfare throughout history have seemed inevitable. Some of the most famous, and influential warfare throughout history stems from Ancient Greece. As everyday economic resources increased, Ancient Greek city-states stopped performing smaller scale raids for resources, livestock, or grain, and began building “armies of foot soldiers,”…

in general, attempting to present the Greeks attitude to him as unanimously for Demosthenes. As to Daris unsuccessful appeals to Alexander’s Greek allied soldiers, there seem to be also additional reason not only the fears for authority that the Macedonian king must have enjoyed over them because of his military achieve means.…

War became more innovative, and more deadly, reaching its peak with the Macedonian leaders Philip and Alexander. Learning from the earlier Greek strategies and weapons, they invented better hand weapons such as the long sarissa spear, used better artillery, successfully arrange multiple troop units with different arms, fully use…

Arguably one of the greatest, if not the greatest military leader in the world was Alexander the Great. The man who with a powerful army swept through the ancient world and united an empire that would stretch from Europe to the middle east, northern Africa, and the edges of eastern Asia. With such a grand conquest one might wonder how this man united an empire in so short of time, but also who was this man I believe with a combination of aspects in his life such as being an exceptional military…

Julius Caesar contains numerous allusions, the majority of which relate to Roman mythology and, to a lesser extent, history. One of the most famous allusions to Roman mythology can be found when Cassius compares himself to Aeneas, a hero of ancient Rome who was present at the fall of Troy. After the victory of the Greeks, Aeneas escaped the razed city with his father Anchises on his back. Many Romans believed that the emperor and nobles of Troy were descended from Aeneas, as the half-human son…