A first book in American history with European beginnings . cceeded in partially uniting thestates. Philips country of Macedonia lay north of the penin-sula of Greece. Here the people were for the most partrude peasants, though the customs of the Greeks hadbeen introduced into court life. Philips son, Alexander,lived at court and studied with Greek teachers andlearned all the ways of the Greeks. Until he was eight years old he took gymnasium ex-ercises and played outdoor games which would make himstrong in body. His education was like that of theGreek boys—training in music, literature, philos
A first book in American history with European beginnings . cceeded in partially uniting thestates. Philips country of Macedonia lay north of the penin-sula of Greece. Here the people were for the most partrude peasants, though the customs of the Greeks hadbeen introduced into court life. Philips son, Alexander,lived at court and studied with Greek teachers andlearned all the ways of the Greeks. Until he was eight years old he took gymnasium ex-ercises and played outdoor games which would make himstrong in body. His education was like that of theGreek boys—training in music, literature, philosophy,painting, and gymnastics. Of course he could not studyelectricity, and other subjects which boys of to-daystudy, because at that time these things were not known. 4 GREECE AND ALEXANDER THE GREAT Alexander became an agile, sturdy little fellow, eager forknowledge, and intensely interested in all the wars inwhich his father fought, and all the battles which he was afraid that when he grew up there would be nocountries left for him to Alexander Taming His Horse, Bucephalus. Two years after Philip conquered Greece, he died,and Alexander, who was then twenty years old, becameking in his place. Alexander now discovered that his father had indeedleft many countries for him to conquer. To the east layPersia, and it soon came to be Alexanders chief ambitionto form a mighty empire of Persia and all the east. TheGreek army of nearly 40,000 was the largest ever beforeassembled in history. In 334 Alexander led thisarmy against Persia. The Greeks conquered everywhere 5 A FIRST BOOK IN AMERICAN HISTORY they went because of Alexanders splendid generalshipand his many schemes for defeating the enemy. Inbattle after battle they were victorious, and year afteryear they pushed farther into Asia. They learned much of Persian customs, and added totheir limited knowledge of the geography of the turn the Persians learned Greek customs from them, since Alexander t
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