Before Philip of Macedon stepped in to unify Greece, Greece was broken up into territories and provinces. Also, before King Philip II came into power, Macedonia was unstable and was full of rural clans, which were all loosely tied under a hereditary empire. Philip inherited the unstable kingdom, from his brother, on the verge of a fall, and made it the most power state of its time. His military innovations revolutionized warfare, which was passed onto his son Alexander the Great who created the army that would conquer Persia and it's empire. Philip of Macedon began the unification of Greece, and his son, Alexander the Great, continued to unify Greece and conquer the known world when his father died.
When Philip came into power, his time expectancy reign on the throne was only a couple of months; this was because in the fourteen years before him, four kings had ruled over Macedonia. Yet, Philip in fact ruled for twenty-three years. In his suprisingly long reign, he managed to bring......

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Title: Unifying Greece
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