HISTORY 1M03 Lecture : History of Greece and Rome-Feb. 6 "Macedon"
13 Mar 2012
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Resource rich but weakly centralized argead kingdom. Very loosely unified, making it hard to mobilize resources. Instability resulted in the death of the older generations of aristocracy; he then enlisted the young aristocracy; tying aristocracy closer with royal service and diluting the influence of other parties (by raising them, the young aristocracy is more loyal). Allows phillip to mobilize resources and reform the macedonian army. Systematic military reform: baggage train (soldiers carried their own baggage, macedonian phalanx: tighter, denser. (sarissas fifteen foot long pikes, needing lots of training to wield) each of the five ranks held their sarissas forward. Greek phalanx was looser and could not penetrate: cavalry. Used to drive in as a wedge to pry apart the order of the greek line: light-armed scouts and skirmishes, torsion catapult and siege warfare. Macedonian takeover of amphipolis (357) and chalcidice.
