> from an irrelevant backwater kingdom > destroys one of the largest and most powerful empires > claims undefeated, being outnumbered at some times 10 to 1 > claims he had a near death experience every fucking battle > had to turn around because muh troops were tired > expects people to believe it
What really happened to the persian empire for it to collapse? Did he really just single handedly defeat a completely stable and functional superpower by winning battles alone? How much of this was fabricated? Was this guy even real? Has greek storytelling fooled the world?
The macedonians were able to invent a groundbreaking technology: longer sticks. With these longer sticks and ergo longer spears they just went ham on Greeks and later Persians all the way up to modern day Pakistan.
Gavin Gonzalez
Brainlet
Julian Jenkins
>> from an irrelevant backwater kingdom
They were considered "backwards" and non-Greek by Greek snobs. But that's just a cultural assessment. Macedonia was a normal and quite strong kingdom. Greeks viewed anyone not greek as beneath them.
>Did he really just single handedly defeat a completely stable and functional superpower by winning battles alone?
I heard that the Persian Empire of the time was quite militarily poor, decentralized, and that the Satraps would just switch allegiance to him after Alexander came in. Thus it's quite believable that a strong military force could then come in and be unstopped.
Julian Roberts
The Persian Empire had a tiny army relative to its size. Most of the battle statistics are exaggerated. Macedon had been building up it's power for decades prior, so it wasn't that backwater anymore. When Alexander invaded Persia, he exploited the tensions between the Persians and their subjects, presenting himself as a benign liberator. Of course, his real objective was to take over the Persian Empire, not to dismantle it. It only disintegrated in the power struggle after his death.
Ryan Howard
>defeats an empire on it's sick bed whoa
Jaxson Bell
This.
James Thompson
Compared to the other Greek states? You could definitely argue ot was a backwater. They were barbarians compared to the Greeks.
Easton Howard
>t. john green
Dominic Bennett
>it's another "Alexander's conquests totally didn't happen, guyz!!!1!" thread
Jacob Thompson
>defeats dying shitholes >runs away at the first sight of a competent army Alexander the "Great"
Kayden Rivera
I really want to know about all this conspiracy about Macedonia. I discuss it with my friends every day, after fullfiling flat earth chat.
Jeremiah Powell
Are you fucking serious? Philip II was the most influential man/king in all of Hellas. Have you even read Demosthenes phillipines? Macedonia was a threat that even athens could no longer contain, Alexander just inherited daddy's plans. Philip was always going to invade the east after uniting Hellas
Jacob Cook
This. Phillip was an intelligent and powerful man, and Alexander was no fluke. That man had one of the smartest people in history tutor him for many years, he also had a top tier daddy with loads of money. Alexander the great is batman in real life.
Parker Perez
The absolute state of Veeky Forums For the love of God I hope this is just shitty bait
Ethan Long
user I think you're getting your centuries mixed up. Philip II, Alexander's father, had made most of Greece bow down to Macedonia.
>I heard that the Persian Empire of the time was quite militarily poor, decentralized, and that the Satraps would just switch allegiance to him after Alexander came in. Thus it's quite believable that a strong military force could then come in and be unstopped. This is true, the Achaemenid Empire had been declining for a while before Alexander invaded. The Persian tax rates were insanely high, and the economy suffered greatly. The taxes were so high that Alexander's army found immense vaults of silver after the conquest. The Hellenistic Era saw a 300 year economic boom from all the money re-introduced into the economy.
Julian Gonzalez
Bruh it’s like comparing the entire state of Texas to just San Francisco or NYC. It may be “backwater” but it’s way more powerful.
Gavin Sanders
>It may be “backwater” but it’s way more powerful.
This is what l meant, lads. They were a cultural backwater. Not irrelevant as OP says by any means, but their niggerdom was unrivaled in the region.
Logan Morris
That's quite untrue, pella the capital was far superior to other greek cities at the time, with superior infrastructure and sanitation.
Colton Cooper
Wait for it...
Juan Foster
Phillip didn't have enough plans to invade the east, at least, not the same way Alexander did. Phillip wanted a Mediterranean Empire that consisted of all of the Greeks in Europe and then some. It's quite a different vision than Alexander's land based conquests.
Elijah Howard
>Did he really just single handedly defeat a completely stable and functional superpower by winning battles alone? Adorable. Go read the Anabasis. Persia was a tattered husk, ready to collapse at the first sharp shove.
Christopher Walker
He probably wouldn't have progressed so spectacularly if Atraxerxes III hadn't been assassinated by his traitorous enunch/minister Bagoas and the inept Darius III was put on the throne.
Oliver Young
He was a Judaeo-reptillian plant obviously.
Gavin Collins
when did he willingly run away? he turned back at india because his troops mutinied.
