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Title: History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Breasted, James Henry, 1865-1935 Robinson, James Harvey, 1863-1936
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Ginn and Company
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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CHAPTER XII ALEXANDER THE GREAT AND THE HELLENISTIC AGE I. The Rise of Macedonia 254. Uncultivated States of the Balkan Peninsula. The backward and barbarous Northern peoples in Thrace and Mace-donia spoke Indo-European tongues akin to Greek, but their Greekkindred of the South could not understand them. A little Greekcivilization began here and there to improve somewhat the roughand uncultivated life of the population of Macedonia. TheMacedonian kings commenced to cultivate Greek literature andart, and the mother of Philip, king of Macedon, was gratefulthat she had been able to learn to write in her old age. 255. Philip of Macedon and his New Army. Philip himselfhad enjoyed a Greek education, and when he gained the powerover Macedonia, in 360 b. c, he understood perfectly the weakness Note. The headpiece above (on the right) is a pleasing example of the Alexandrianart of mosaic — the art of putting together brightly colored bits of glass or stone andforming figures or designs with

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