The Macedonian invasion of Egypt
Philip II unites the Greeks and decides to fight the Persians: Greece were not state Tantzationa political unity of the Commonwealth, but was divided into a large number of mini-states are keen to ensure each of them more independence and freedom and differentiate between them disputes and hatred. If these states reached a distant place in the fifth century BC, they were weakened and chaotic between them during the fourth century, while Macedonia on its northern border was serious in uniting and upscale. When Philip II ascended the throne of Macedonia, he saw that the situation of the Greeks was being taken apart by Macedonia, politically and militarily, and that the Greeks were fighting a national war against their ancient Persian enemies. They controlled the smaller Greeks of Asia and threatened the safety of the Greeks. And the other was the elimination of the Persian threat. The Greeks realized the purposes of Philip and divided into two unequal parts, supported by the le...

