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    Philip II of Macedon rose to power in 359 BC after the deaths of his brothers. [1] He reorganized the Macedonian army, introducing innovations like the Macedonian phalanx and cavalry units. [2] Philip then began a campaign of conquest, subjugating neighboring territories and forcing Greek city-states to join his League of Corinth alliance. [3] However, Philip was assassinated in 336 BC while preparing to invade Persia, allowing his son Alexander to succeed him as king of Macedon.

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    Philip II of Macedon rose to power in 359 BC after the deaths of his brothers. [1] He reorganized the Macedonian army, introducing innovations like the Macedonian phalanx and cavalry units. [2] Philip then began a campaign of conquest, subjugating neighboring territories and forcing Greek city-states to join his League of Corinth alliance. [3] However, Philip was assassinated in 336 BC while preparing to invade Persia, allowing his son Alexander to succeed him as king of Macedon.

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    Philip II of Macedon rose to power in 359 BC after the deaths of his brothers. [1] He reorganized the Macedonian army, introducing innovations like the Macedonian phalanx and cavalry units. [2] Philip then began a campaign of conquest, subjugating neighboring territories and forcing Greek city-states to join his League of Corinth alliance. [3] However, Philip was assassinated in 336 BC while preparing to invade Persia, allowing his son Alexander to succeed him as king of Macedon.

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    Philip II of Macedon rose to power in 359 BC after the deaths of his brothers. [1] He reorganized the Macedonian army, introducing innovations like the Macedonian phalanx and cavalry units. [2] Philip then began a campaign of conquest, subjugating neighboring territories and forcing Greek city-states to join his League of Corinth alliance. [3] However, Philip was assassinated in 336 BC while preparing to invade Persia, allowing his son Alexander to succeed him as king of Macedon.

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    Domination of Philip II

    Domination of Philip II
    After the collapse of the polis system and the
    Greco-Persian Wars the Greeks became more and
    more confused because of their disunity. People felt
    the necessary of reunion to ease the inner tension and
    to get new markets. Then Philip II came into sight from
    Macedon.

    He had born at 382 BC in Pella as the youngest


    son of the king Amyntas III and Eurydice I. In his youth
    he was held as a hostage in Thebes, where he received a military and
    diplomatic education from Epaminondas. In 364 BC he returned to
    Macedon, and after the death of his brothers he took the throne in 359 BC
    but just as the tutor of his infant nephew Amyntas IV. He became the king
    of Macedon officially in 355 BC but then he had already reorganised the
    army and started his conquests.

    His reorganisations consisted of the following inventions:

    introduction of the Macedon phalanx: hoplites in triangle-shape

    cavalry on the two side of the phalanx

    introduction of selective service

    sarissa: 4,6 m long spear, the most important army corp in Macedon

    Philip II is not only famous for his military inventions but for also his
    conquests. His aim was not to invade the Greek cities but to unite them. At
    first he involved in the Third Sacred War which had broken out in Greece,
    in 353, and invaded Thessaly.

    Later he completed the subjugation of the Balkan hill-country to the


    west and north, and reduced the Greek cities of the coast to the Hebrus.
    Philip started the siege of Olynthus in 349 BC, and one year later he razed
    every city of the Chalcidian peninsula to the ground.

    With key Greek city-states in his hands, he turned to Sparta; and sent
    them a message, "You are advised to submit without further delay, for if I
    bring my army into your land, I will destroy your farms, slay your people,
    and raze your city." For this message the laconic reply of the Spartans:
    "If". After this Philip (and Alexander too) left them alone.
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    Domination of Philip II

    In 340 BC, Philip started the siege of Perinthus. He began another


    siege in 339 of the city of Byzantium, and after their failure, Philip's
    influence all over Greece was established.

    The League of Corinth was created and led by him from 337 BC.
    Members of the League agreed never to attack each other, unless it was
    to suppress revolution. Philip was elected as its leader, and became the
    hegemon In 336 BC, he wanted to start a war against the Persian
    Empire, but when the invasion was in its very early stage, Philip was
    assassinated, so he could not reach his goals anymore...

    According to Diodorus, Philip was hosting a party before the war


    against Persia. He wanted his march into the theater to be triumphant,
    and he asked his bodyguards to stand back and out of the way to show
    that he had nothing to fear. At that very moment, a man called Pausanias
    rushed forward from the crowd and stuck a knife in Philip's chest. During
    his escape, Pausanias tripped and fell and was killed on the spot.

    After the death of his father, Alexander III took his fathers throne,
    and started to govern and extend the prosperous kingdom of Macedon.i
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    Source: http://www.wikipedia.com
    http://wso.williams.edu/~junterek/philip.htm
    http://faq.macedonia.org/images/PHILIP.jpg

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