CLAS-110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Satrap, Callisthenes, Hindu Kush
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2 general areas: area by the coast, and further back into the hills and mountains (hill folk). Set the foundation for the massive expansion: defined the borders, consolidated the hill tribes. Made a series of marriage alliances 1 woman from illyria, 1 woman from thrace, 2 women from thessaly, and olympias from epirus: olympias mother of alexander the great. First pushed eastward and conquered most of thrace. Mercenary armies: can be trained in new techniques, new tactics, they are not a citizen/farmer militia, they don"t have to be home to plant/harvest the crops. Invention of a new style of phalanx: long pike called a sarissa. Bigger kill zone: cavalry to guard the back and the flanks of the phalanx. 352 all of thessaly was under philip"s control. Demosthenes made a series of speeches in the ekklesia trying to persuade athens to be more scared of philips expansion. 340 philip is threatening byzantium on the hellespont.
