HIST 010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Hoplite, Thermopile, Battle Of Gaugamela
24 Oct 2016
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Phillip of macedonia make it into greatest power in greece and conquer all of greece. Rst time greece was ever uni ed forced them to stop ghting lead a uni ed greek army for revenge against persia. Alexander leads greek invasion of persia (334 bc) alexander ready to lead attack army of 50,000 soldiers. Persian at the time: ruled by darius iii. Tallest and handsomest man in all of persia did not believe alexander was a threat did not personally face alexander ordered governors to do so. Why he wins most of the persian army is not persian / subjects forced to ght. Alexander inherited the powerful army created by philip strongest ever seen in history (50,000) Hoplite armor with longer spears (8ft to 18ft) best cavalry o cers of army were also political advisors. Darius iii gathers 150,000 men march west searching for alexander. Alexander is going south east (334 bc) they meet in issus.
