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an ancient battle formation in which soldiers stood close together to protect themselves. |
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a weapon the hurls large stones to shatter city walls |
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What ruler is creditied for uniting Greece under the Macedonian rule? |
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What strategy did the Macedonian forces use to overwhelm and defeat Greek armies? |
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They dismissed Macedonians as uncultured people. Phillip built a powerful professional army that used new warfare methods. |
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C.E.R. Question: What evidence from the text demonstrates that Phillip II was an intelligent general? |
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Phillip II was an intelligenter general because he built a powerful army and used new warfare methods. The text states "Phillip built a powerful professional army and used new warfare methods. For, example he placed large groups of soldiers close together forming an almost unstoppable battle formation called a phalanx. new mothods wagoing war was the use of war machines like the catapults." This show how Philip was intelligent. |
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