85 Years Before Me
During this time my great, great grandpa, Pegos, was fighting for his life. He had two children, that made him fight harder, by the way one of those children is my great grandpa. While Macedon attacked Athens (where they lived at the time), he died by spear, and his wife moved, with the children, to Sparta.
At the end of the Peloponnesian War the city-states were severly weakened and might have risen again if not for the ascent of power of the Macedon kingdom in the north of Greece. The Macedon kingdom was a tribal kingdom, unlike the feircely independant (and small) states, with a tyrannical king and a large area. Once firmly allied, and then expanded, Macedon's king, Philip II, who I DO NOT agree with, had enough recources to take over the weakened and divided southern city-states. Between 356 and 342 BC, King Phillip had taken over all territory within the Macedon area, including Thessaly and Thrace. Finally, Phillip sought to command all of southern Greece. And after defeating the combined forces of Athens and Thebes, the two most powerful states, in the Battle of Chaeronia in 338 BC, he succeded. Now that the southern states are unable to fight, Phillip compelled most of them (including Athens, Thebes, Corinth and Argos; but not Sparta, of course) to join the Corinthian league, and therefore become allied to him. This established a lasting reign over southern Greece, and gave Phillip the resources and security to launch war against the Persian Empire. After his assassination, the war was taken over by his son, Alexander the Great, who I do agree with, which resulted in the takeover of the whole Achaemenid Empire by the Macedonians. At the end of all this, once Alexander the Great was killed, the Macedon kingdom quickly divided into other, smaller kingdoms. At the end of all this my family lived on because of a powerful Spartan City which could defend theirselves from Macedonia.
At the end of the Peloponnesian War the city-states were severly weakened and might have risen again if not for the ascent of power of the Macedon kingdom in the north of Greece. The Macedon kingdom was a tribal kingdom, unlike the feircely independant (and small) states, with a tyrannical king and a large area. Once firmly allied, and then expanded, Macedon's king, Philip II, who I DO NOT agree with, had enough recources to take over the weakened and divided southern city-states. Between 356 and 342 BC, King Phillip had taken over all territory within the Macedon area, including Thessaly and Thrace. Finally, Phillip sought to command all of southern Greece. And after defeating the combined forces of Athens and Thebes, the two most powerful states, in the Battle of Chaeronia in 338 BC, he succeded. Now that the southern states are unable to fight, Phillip compelled most of them (including Athens, Thebes, Corinth and Argos; but not Sparta, of course) to join the Corinthian league, and therefore become allied to him. This established a lasting reign over southern Greece, and gave Phillip the resources and security to launch war against the Persian Empire. After his assassination, the war was taken over by his son, Alexander the Great, who I do agree with, which resulted in the takeover of the whole Achaemenid Empire by the Macedonians. At the end of all this, once Alexander the Great was killed, the Macedon kingdom quickly divided into other, smaller kingdoms. At the end of all this my family lived on because of a powerful Spartan City which could defend theirselves from Macedonia.