HIST 1207 Lecture 2: HIST 1207 08:29:18
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08/29/18: alexander the great, macedonian, conquest follows the fertile crescent (india to egypt, civilization is more sophisticated , follow the money, established empire 334-323 bce. Inheritance: father-philip of macedonia gave him the tools, badass, alexander used that tool to conquer, tutored by aristotle. Warrior-philosopher king : from the greek word for greece, refers to this shift toward greek language and culture, brought greek language/culture with him everywhere he went. 4: common language became greek, morphed into kown (a less involved greek) (kee-oh-nee, after his death, empire divided and territory lost. Caesar: civil unrest followed (2nd triumvirate) and order was restored when octavian, Caesar"s nephew and heir, gained absolute power (and was renamed octavian) which started the roman empire. Good emperors /stability from everything else: mid 3rd century, the empire was in political, military, and economic chaos, the decline of rome is beginning, mediterranean, basically a trading lake, under augustus, rome included most of western europe and the.
