Western Civ Blog 34

Today in western Civ cyber class we wrote brief biographies on Phillip II, Alexander the Great, and Darius III. First we're going to talk about Phillip II. Phillip II was the king of Spain, Portugal, Naples, Sicily, and jure uxoris King of England and Ireland. Phillip II was also the Duke of Milan, and from 1555, lord of the Seventeen Provinces of the Netherlands. He was born on May 21, 1527, in Palacio de Pimentel, Valladolid, Spain. He died on September 13, 1598, in El Escorial, Spain. He died of assassination. He ruled one of the world's largest empires. His reign as Spain's king began the Golden Age, a period of great cultural growth in literature, music and the visual arts. Alexander the Great was a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon and a member of the Argead dynasty. He was born on July 356 BC, in Pella, Greece. He died on June 323 BC, in Babylon. He brought to the Greeks a new way of fighting. He brought to the Persians the Greek way of life. Alexander's success lay in his tactics, particularly the phalanx, which allowed its enemies little openings for attack. Lastly,  we have Darius III. He was originally named Artashata and called Codomannus by the Greeks. He was born in 381 BC. He died on July 330 BC, in Bactria. He was the last king of the Achaemenid Empire of Persia, from 336 BC to 330 BC.