Macedonians/History

The Kingdom of Macedon was a Greek kingdom that was founded in the 9th century BC, which ended in 146 BC. The Macedonians were a northern city-state that flourished in an area different from Mycenaean Greece, and Ancient Greece was not affected until the 350s BC. A man named Philip II of Macedon conquered Greece in 338 BC and his son Alexander III (The Great) conquered the Achaemenid Empire and most of the known world. However, his empire splintered after his death, and the Antigonid Empire was created in 312 BC. It took over Greece from Cassander and emerged victorious in the power struggle after Lysimachus and Seleukos were killed, and the Ptolemies confined to Egypt through regional contention. The Antigonids conquered Athens, Sparta, and Epirus from 270 BC onwards, and were only brought down when the Roman Republic conquered them in 146 BC after the Battle of Cynoscephalae and the Battle of Pydna. 
== History ==
The Macedonian Empire truly began when Philip II of Macedon's professional standing armies conquered Greece in 338 BC after the Battle of Chaeronea and the Siege of Methoni. When he was assassinated in 336 BC, his son Alexander took over and became known as "Alexander the Great" after conquering the Kingdomn of Illyria, the Thracians, and other barbarian areas in The Balkans. By 333 BC, he was ready to invade the Persian Empire, which he conquered by 329 BC. That year, he captured Merv, the last Persian stronghold, and invaded Baktra and the Mauryan Empire later on. His empire had conquered his way to Greece, The Balkans, Turkey, Lebanon, the Ukraine, Syria, Israel, Jordan, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Egypt, northern Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Afghanistan, Turkestan, and Pakistan. When he died in 323 BC, he invited his generals to a tournament, and his empire was cut up into pieces for each general to recieve.