At this point, we can also indirectly understand that with the encouragement of this military merit system, people in Rome became more active in joining the army. Moreover, Rome was a place where everyone was welcome, so this in turn led to other tribes, and even

Some of the more crazy people in the empire were short of money. They could actually serve in the Roman army and then go to war to make money.

In short, in addition to their own obligations and the military pay they could receive, Roman soldiers also had a concept similar to mercenaries in our modern era. Anyway, they meant paying people to fight.

Therefore, the Roman legions became more and more powerful, more and more crazy, and kept attacking other tribes. Moreover, Roman soldiers also liked to attack other tribes. After all, there is money to be gained from killing people, so why not kill them? Moreover, they also like to attack other tribes.

They can burn, kill, and loot, and the resources they grab still belong to them. Why not burn, kill, and loot, right?

So far, Rome has developed very rapidly, but this concept of money first has not been implemented in other tribes. Other tribes or empires still have the same old system. Whether it is a defensive war or a foreign war, it is basically a decree issued by the gods. All

The people had no choice but to comply, otherwise they would be killed by the higher-ups. Even if they grabbed something, they would have to take it back and hand it over to the higher-ups of the city-state where they were located. In other words, the victory of the battle had nothing to do with the personal integrity of their warriors.

Such a big relationship is all due to the gods, so there will be no reward in any form, and if you die on the battlefield, you are dead. What else can you do?

Therefore, this means that the soldiers of other city-states are not at the same level as the soldiers of Rome in terms of psychological factors. Because the soldiers of Rome are basically voluntarily serving as soldiers, voluntarily abiding by military discipline, and then voluntarily killing people!

They voluntarily burned, killed and looted! But the warriors from other tribes or empires were completely coerced into submission by the will of the gods, which was completely different in nature.

This then resulted in the Roman army being invincible and invincible! Unfortunately, this concept of money supremacy later brought some trouble to Rome, but let’s not talk about this now, and we will talk about it later. Now we just need to

Understand that Rome is very powerful, and the army is no longer the concept of an army, but a group of outright murderers, which can also be said to be a group of war machines.

Now we continue to return to the previous topic of the Greek Empire, because when Rome was developing into a huge empire, there was a big problem with the Greek Empire and the Persian Empire. What was the problem? We have also talked in great detail before about the Greek Empire.

It was always in a state of civil war, which was caused by the struggle for power between the Spartans and the Athenians, and also involved Xerxes of the Persian Empire.

In the end, the Spartans won, which dealt a serious blow to the city-state of Athens, which was originally extremely wealthy and completely collapsed. Another reason is that the Spartans were too selfish and wanted to treat the population of all the city-states in the Greek Empire as theirs.

Spartan slaves. This process, coupled with the instigation of discord by King Xerxes of the Persian Empire, eventually led to the outbreak of a civil war that lasted for countless years. In the process of this civil war, the strength of the entire Greek empire faced complete collapse.

On the edge of the world, King Xerxes of Persia has been watching the fire from the other side, waiting for the most perfect opportunity to destroy the whole of Greece!

Macedonia at this time, Macedonia is a place name, was a backward slave kingdom in the north of the Greek Empire, and was often enslaved by the Greek Empire as a slave state. The civilians could be said to live without enough food and clothing.

, in short it’s very bad.

And as we have said before, the Kingdom of Macedonia is very, very backward. But the top leaders of the Kingdom of Macedonia are different from the top leaders of other slave countries enslaved by the Greek Empire. The other slave countries in the Greek Empire just want to curse Greece every day to destroy the country, or

They were thinking about how to destroy Greece, but everything was just in their imagination. After all, they believed that almost all resources and labor were taken away by the people of the Greek Empire, and it was impossible to fight back.

But the top leaders of the Kingdom of Macedonia didn't think so. While the Greek Empire regarded themselves as a slave state, they also studied the culture and technology of the Greek Empire, and even completely adopted Greek culture and writing! These various changes,

We can understand that the Kingdom of Macedonia currently exists more like a continuation of another Greek Empire, so the Kingdom of Macedonia has slowly become stronger, and recently there has been a civil war within the Greek Empire, so this slightly ignores the importance of the Kingdom of Macedonia to them

The management of slavery.

Finally, in the fourth century BC, the Kingdom of Macedonia had already taken a developed form, so King Philip II of the Kingdom of Macedonia advocated the unification of the Kingdom of Macedonia, which had been completely disrupted by the Greek Empire.

.But who doesn’t want to be the king himself, right? Therefore, many city-states in the Kingdom of Macedonia refused to unify, and Philip II used force to deal with it, because Philip II’s military formation and other aspects were all learned from the Greek Empire.

This also means that they are very advanced, so although other small tribes in the Kingdom of Macedonia, although they refused to surrender, they were still crushed by Philip II with his army that had absolutely advanced advantages, and directly unified the entire Kingdom of Macedonia. Although this

A lot of people did die in the process, but at least they were unified in a real sense.

This is because the civil war in the Greek Empire is becoming more and more complex and tragic, which has led to the laxity of the Spartans, the current leaders in the Greek Empire, in managing maritime hegemony. This is mainly due to the number of warriors.

It was caused by deficiencies. Then Philip II took advantage of this opportunity to manufacture a large number of warships. In fact, they were imitations of the Spartans of the Greek Empire, but the Spartan warships were highly imitated of the Phoenicians of the Persian Empire.

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But no matter what, we just need to understand that the current thinking of King Philip II of Macedonia is correct. Therefore, after the unification of Macedonia, the population will increase greatly, which will directly lead to a surge in productivity! Then it created

A large number of warships at sea.

King Philip II of Macedonia now has warships, which has repeled outsiders on the coast and seaports near the kingdom. In this way, the Kingdom of Macedonia also has a port, which means that there is maritime trade, and maritime trade also has

This means that there are more resources, and even exchanged weapons and other technologies. Therefore, at this time, the Kingdom of Macedonia gradually rose up while taking advantage of the seemingly endless civil war in the Greek Empire!

Now that the Kingdom of Macedonia has shown signs of its complete rise, the living standards of civilians in the Kingdom of Macedonia have also been improved to a certain extent. On this day, King Philip II of Macedonia bought a horse

A very tall horse, and then tried it out at a training ground on the outskirts of the city.

But this very tall horse has a temper as big as its body. As soon as the riders get on the horse, this tall horse will slam the riders to the ground hard, and even many riders will be thrown to the ground.

It cannot be tamed. It seems that this horse has a really big temper and is very arrogant. The fierce horse just jumps up and down with its front hooves in the air, neighing wildly! So far, no rider can tame it.

, so everyone on the racecourse was laughing.

Philip II saw that this horse was indeed very powerful, but no rider could tame it, so it was of no use, so he was about to order someone to take it away. Suddenly Philip II

At this time, he heard his twelve-year-old son Alexander say: It's not that fierce horses cannot be tamed, but that the riders are too timid.

When Philip II heard his son talking like this, he immediately became very angry and said: Don't laugh at people older than you! Because you can't tame them either!

But Alexander was unconvinced and said: I'll try it!

Philip II immediately became even more angry, and then saw Alexander running towards the fierce horse, and immediately wanted to stop him, because the fierce horse would hurt the young Alexander.

But before Philip II could stop him, Alexander held the reins with one hand and gently stroked the horse's mane with the other. Alexander found that the fierce horse was very afraid of its own shadow, so he slowly turned the horse's head.

Come over and face the sun. Suddenly Alexander jumped up with lightning speed and jumped on the horse. The frightened horseman stood up, looked up to the sky and neighed, trying to throw Alexander off the horse, but Alexander held on tightly

Holding the reins, his legs were tightly clamped on the horse's belly, as stable as a mountain. When the fierce horse saw that Alexander was not thrown off by it, it began to jump crazily. Everyone present saw this situation, it was Philip II's

His face turned pale with fright, but Alexander showed no fear.

At this point, the fierce horse neighed, ran into the distance like lightning, and disappeared from people's sight in the blink of an eye. Philip II was extremely anxious, and subconsciously sent people to catch up. After a while, Alexander, who was sweating profusely,

He came back on horseback, but this fierce horse obeyed his command very tamely. Everyone in the audience was shocked when they saw this. From then on, Philip II made up his mind to train the courageous Alexander into his

Your own successor.

Then Philip II spent a lot of money to invite Aristotle, the most famous scholar in Greece, to serve as Alexander's tutor! And Aristotle worked hard to educate Alexander to love Greek culture and conquer science.
Chapter completed!