Zelgadis75 said:
Very True we have a macadonian exchange student living with us , and Macadonians are NOT Greeks, emphasis on NOT. Shes very proud of Alexander however!
Modern day Macedonians are not anything like Ancient Macedonians. Moderns day Macedonians are Slavic, Ancient day Macedonians were Greek. Even recent archaelogical discoveries point to the Greek Macedonians traced back to the city-state of Argos.
They were considered barbaric because they spoke a Greek dialect, there were many, that was considered uncivilised. In fact, they had little real culture compared to the rest of Greece. Macedonia was just the buffer between Greece and the northern barbarians (slavic people, or the people that would become slavic).
Philip and thus Alexander only came into power due to the paranoia and distrust in that time, where Athens and Thebes formed an alliance to topple Sparta, who was militaristic undefeated in a straight up battle on land for over 400 years since they were a militart state.
Over some 30 years, Athens, Thebes and their many allies had ground Sparta to the ground and in doing so sealed their fate. It was Thebes that took away Sparta's acquired lands which meant their military state could not continue in existance as they were dependant on those acquired lands and the slaves to supply their food and other resources.
When Philip turned on Athens, Sparta was not there to defend against Philip's conquest. It is ironic that he was to defeat Athens and his son destroy Thebes after they revolved after the assassination of Phillip.
The army that invaded Persia under Alexander was Greek, not slavic. Modern day macedonia is a region, it is not a country, it has to ties to the people of Ancient Greece, most who live there were recent immigrants from war torn nations in Northern Europe. They have no history or culture and have tried to acquire one by association.
Greece colonised parts of italy, spain, france, asia minor even northern Africa where Libya is, they have more claim to foreign nations than the modern day Macedonians have of ancient greece. Greek culture dates back to 70,000 B.C. to try and claim part of that heritage is ludicrous.
). They probably had ties to the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes that invaded England, but they had just as much ties to the Germanic tribes that stayed at home (and probably the Swedes). Beowulf himself never set foot in England during the entire story, traveling only between his homeland and Denmark.
). If i have to pick one, Giulio Andreotti would be my choice.
