Alexander's Empire
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The ancient Kingdom of Macedonia, situated in the north of modern
Greece, was established by Perdiccas I about 640 B.C. Perdiccas was a
Dorian, although the Macedonian tribes included Thracian and Illyrian
elements. Originally a semibarbarous and fragmented power, Macedon became
tributary to Persia ....
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.... by barbarian strains that Athenians could not
understand it. Macedonia remained an outland. Growth of trade in the early
fourth century promoted the rise of several cities, yet when Perdiccas III,
king of Macedonia, fell in 359 B.C. while fighting the Illyrians the
seaboard of his state was largely under Athenian control or in the hands of
the Chalcidian league, grouped about Olynthus.
Philip (382-36), brother of the dead king, was made regent for the
infant heir, soon set aside his nephew ....
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