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Macedonians never Greek But are Greeks really Greek or are they Africans?
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Macedonians are greek. and Greeks are not africans. I am Greek and I have very light skin, very light brown hair and blue eyes. I am not an african.
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What did Demosthenes want the Greek city-states to do about the Macedonians?
Demosthenes was an Athenian lawyer and public speaker who opposed Philip. He warned the Athenians that Philip was a threat to Greek freedom. he urged all the city-states to join together to fight the Macedonians. The Greeks followed his advice and tried to unite, but it was too late. The Athenians joined with Thebes and a few other city-states. They battle Philip's army, but they were defeated.
How did the Greeks defeat the Persian Empire?
It was not the Greeks, it was the Macedonians, who used Greek and other mercenaries to support them. Alexander the Great king of Macedonia, spent ten years taking over the Persian Empire. He did this in three major battles which broke coordinated Persian resistance, and then dealt with the outlying provinces one at a time.
How were the Greek gods related to the Greeks?
Greek gods were imagined by the Greeks, so they are related by that.
What was the Greek name for the Greeks?
Hades IS the Greek name.
Who created Greek Myths?
The greeks created greek myths
Which macedonian king loved greek culture?
Macedonians were Greeks, so i guess that everyone of them loved their own culture.
What were ancient Macedonia religions?
The ancient Macedonians along with the other Greeks believed in the Greek pantheon of deities. The Macedonians particularly, worshipped the Twelve Olympians, especially Zeus, Artemis, Heracles, and Dionysus.
Do Greek people really know that Alexander the Great is from Macedonia?
They most certainly did - they held the Macedonians to be very inferior, and knew Macedonians spoke a different language (when Alexander gave orders in Greek, their commanders had to translate them into Macedonian). Alexander's father Philip Ii had tried to counter this by faking descent from early Greek kings and running Greek cultural activities.
What kingdom was north of ancient Greece?
The kingdom of Macedonia. ________________ "And Macedonia, of course, is a part of Greece." (Strab. VII, Frg. 9 [Loeb, H.L. Jones]) The kingdom north of ancient Greece was ancient Paeonia. ________________ An evidence-based view: The Greeks did not recognise the Macedonians as Greeks. King Philip had to fake up a Greek ancestry after being refused his bid to race a chariot in the Greeks-only Olympic Games. He had to control the Greek Amphyctionic League by bribing other cities as proxy-voters as Macedonia was not admitted; and in Alexander's army, the Macedonians had to have interpreters for orders as their language was so far removed from Greek, unlike various other Greek city-states whose dialects were compatible (a reasonable parallel would be English- Cockney for the Greeks and English-Welsh for the Macedonians). Later, with the emergence of the Hellenistic kingdoms the aristocracy persisted with calling themselves Macedonians. If they actively maintained they were not Greeks, who are we to say they were Greeks.
How was the fall of Greece to the Macedonians similar to the fall of Rome to the barbarians?
Well, for instance, both the Greeks and the Romans were taken over by the Macedonians or barbarians. The Macedonians and barbarians were both outsiders, and both the conquerors respected the place that they conquered- the Macedonians spread the Greek culture, and the barbarians respected what the Roman Empire stood for so they did not completely strip it down.
What cultures made up the Hellenistic culture?
It was Greek (=Hellenic, but we name it Hellenistic because it was like Greek, not full blown universal), introduced by the Macedonians into the Persian Empire after it was taken over by Alexander and split into kingdoms by his generals after he died. The culture was superficial, amongst the ruling Macedonians and Greeks - the mass of people continued their own cultures.
Why is he known as alexsander Macedon?
Because he was a king of "Macedonians" which werent Greeks as Greeks say.What a greek philosopher says: ... not only no Greek, nor related to the Greeks, but not even a barbarian from any place that can be named with honors, but a pestilent knave from Macedonia, whence it was never yet possible to buy a decent slave" - Demosthenes, Third Philippic, 31.
What happened after the Greeks won against the Persians?
The Greek city-states were then free to return to their normal fighting each other, getting into the devastating 27-year Peloponnesian War which so weakened the Greek world that the Macedonians were able to dominate them.
Was macedon a large area north of india?
No, it was a large area of Greece. It was a large rugged, mountainous country, and the people living there were much different than the Greek's. The Greeks considered the Macedonians barbarians.
Did the Greek name the constellations?
The Greeks really named quite a few.
In the years around 275 BC were the Parthians Macidonians Thracians and The people of Pontous considered Greeks?
Macedonians and Thracians were greek tribes. The people of Pontous have greek origins but became relevant in the history of greek culture much later (in the byzantine empire). The Parthians were not a greek tribe, their culture was more ''persian''.
Why the could the Persians not defeat the Greeks or Macedonians?
The Persian infantry was unarmoured and could not stand up to Greek and Macedonian infantry formations, particularly after both raised cavalry forces to match those of the Persians.
