Not often does an empire spring out so sudden only to be a shadow of itself a decade later. Macedonia was a small state in northern modern Greece, though not considered Greek by the Greek city states. Despite this, Macedonia was facinated by Greek culture and philosophy, and with the Persian threat looming in the East, Macedonia managed to unite the Greek city states under its influence.
Macedonia's campaign eastward began in earnest in 334 B.C. with the conquest of Asia Minor, where several Greek cities was liberated from the Persians. Macedonia continued into the Middle East, conquering Syria and destroying the Phoenician city of Tyre in 332 B.C., leaving the Phoenician culture's dominance to Carthage.
Continuing south, Macedonia conquered Egypt and Babylonia by 331 B.C. These victories were significant blows to the Persian Empire, as Babylon was considered one of the Persian capitals, the other being Susa.
Through the Persian deserts, Persia was finally conquered in 328 B.C. with its last remaining forces defeated. Continuing its success streak, Macedonia continued towards India but was defeated at the Battle of Hydaspes. After the defeat, Macedonia lost its passion for further conquests, leaving its remains parted between its lesser successors.
Despite being known as Macedonia today, it considered itself to be the natural unification of Greek cities and as such the Greek Empire. By its end, it had conquered all of the known world to the Greeks.
So, I've been a big fan of your work for a while now, and occasionally lurk your oekaki to see when you've updated, but it just so happens that I found something that I think you might be interested...it's a website using some of your art for their site. It's a pay site, and I figured you might now know about it. Now, if you do know about it, then I apologize, but otherwise, here's a link for proof... http://galleries.adult-empire.com/7615/348960/2352/index.php
If they've been just taking your work, I hope you can do something about it! Anyway, keep up the good work, and I hope that helps!
I really like how you typed out this segment, Svip, because more often than not, Alexander the Great is given an (in my opinion at least) overblown importance.
Sarissas and phalanxites for the win!. And is funny because Alexander was responsible of making the hellenistic culture, the "civilized world" culture, and yet think greek city states hated being conquered by Phillip II. In the middle east, Alexander is still seen as some sort of demon but modern Greeks see it as a hero and greek as Zeus (and being honest they kinda dislike that one ex Jugoslavian republic uses the name Macedonia).
@BattlePope: His importance is largely related to historians at the time, who would often glorify individuals as godlike personalities. It's amusing that much of our perception of the time is related to the historians of the time itself. Take Homer's works.
Sure, modern historians will tell you that all of these works needs to be taken with a grain of salt. But unfortunately, this seldom reaches the general population. In fact, take the tales of Cleopatra was largely written by Romans who had political reasons for disowning her reputation. Then later it was reversed during the Renaissance. In fact, the Renaissance also spend a lot of time of badmouthing the Middle Ages.
But Alexander's importance to the conquest is not entirely without merit, he did what was deemed to be required for the survival of the Greek civilisation. Then basically he went too far, and his successors couldn't decide on what to do with his empire, and thus felt they had no reason to continue his conquest.
I emailed them and they considerately took down the four of my images that were posted on that page, but one of the replacements was another one of my images (208) lol. Time to email them again!
@Bobby: They felt that it was sort of silly (in that they were quite aware of the girls' proportions), and I am feeling slightly offended. Despite that, I didn't care enough for the jokes to make a fuss.
Despite what this Bobby troll keeps saying, your both doing a wonderful job. I love your historical biographies Svip, just as much as the artwork that accompanies it.
@Anon: Thank you, I actually do spend some serious time on these writings to cover the events brief enough for my audience to understand the events it depicts, without getting caught up in obscure details.
This is generally an issue with historians, whom are taught to be overly detailed when writing and thus few people can easily get interested in history despite its importance. My attempt here is to make these event be 'edible' as snacks. Snack history as I like to call it.
I am not trying to assume my audience is stupid, but rather that most of them have a prejudice preconception of history to be boring. This is often a well-founded but incorrect perception of history due to bad history teachers. Trust me, when I finished school, I did not intend I would ever do history again. But after I discovered small facts about history here and there online, my interest grew. Believe it or not, but the mention of the Holy Roman Empire was avoided entirely during my time in school. Yet a fascinating part of European history.
In addition, I also feel that history teachers and historians can often get caught in details, where we are yawning away. I don't want the teachers to tell us what happened, not after its pupils have asked 'why?', because when we get to that point, you have interested them enough to gather further information regarding the subject at hand.
My solution to this issue is my webcomic (Flagland) and my snack history writing. And I am sure the boobs doesn't hurt either.
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Macedonia's campaign eastward began in earnest in 334 B.C. with the conquest of Asia Minor, where several Greek cities was liberated from the Persians. Macedonia continued into the Middle East, conquering Syria and destroying the Phoenician city of Tyre in 332 B.C., leaving the Phoenician culture's dominance to Carthage.
Continuing south, Macedonia conquered Egypt and Babylonia by 331 B.C. These victories were significant blows to the Persian Empire, as Babylon was considered one of the Persian capitals, the other being Susa.
Through the Persian deserts, Persia was finally conquered in 328 B.C. with its last remaining forces defeated. Continuing its success streak, Macedonia continued towards India but was defeated at the Battle of Hydaspes. After the defeat, Macedonia lost its passion for further conquests, leaving its remains parted between its lesser successors.
Despite being known as Macedonia today, it considered itself to be the natural unification of Greek cities and as such the Greek Empire. By its end, it had conquered all of the known world to the Greeks.