Ancient Macedonians
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Oct 21, 2026
Benjamin BosterHOST
and to the east beyond the Axios River, into Macedonia and regions settled by Thracian tribes.
Benjamin BosterHOST
To the north of Macedonia by various non-Greek peoples, such as the Peonians, due north, the Thracians to the northeast, and the Illyrians, with whom the Macedonians were frequently in conflict to the northwest.
Benjamin BosterHOST
Chalcidice was settled early on by southern Greek colonists, and was considered part of the Greek world.
Benjamin BosterHOST
While from the late 2nd millennium BC, substantial Greek settlement also occurred on the eastern shores of the Aegean and Anatolia.
Brian D'AlmeidaHOST
Because let's be honest here.
Brian D'AlmeidaHOST
Persians, basically the entirety of the Near East and Middle East, which is where the Greeks and Macedonians went and conquered, are by nature, they did not do set piece battles and the phalanx simply mowed its way through because they never, because they never actually clashed that way.
Dave PascoeHOST
Yeah.
Brian D'AlmeidaHOST
But the discipline of the Legion,
Marcus FuriousGUEST
You know, this ends up being a large and sprawling empire.
Marcus FuriousGUEST
I mean, by the time Alexander, or even prior to Alexander, you know, prior to the rise of the Macedonians and the Greeks, For instance, we all know about the famous Battle of Thermopylae, the stand of the Spartans in Greece.
Marcus FuriousGUEST
I watched the movie anyway.
Marcus FuriousGUEST
Many of us did.
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Marcus FuriousGUEST
He actually pushes further east.
Marcus FuriousGUEST
and we have this Macedonian empire.
Marcus FuriousGUEST
But probably one of the things that allows the Macedonians to sort of survive as a people with an intact sense of identity is two factors.
Marcus FuriousGUEST
One, unlike a lot of sort of people or nations in that context, Alexander favors a policy of basically integration.
Andrew DoyleGUEST
It falls apart because you have Athens and Sparta having the Peloponnesian War in the fifth century BC, which weakens them fundamentally with the other city states involved, Thebes, et cetera.
Andrew DoyleGUEST
And that opens, uh, that makes them so weak that the Macedonians can effectively take over.
Andrew DoyleGUEST
Philip II can run ravage over them, paving the way for his son, Alexander the Great- To make incursions into Persia.
Andrew DoyleGUEST
But it was the fragmentation.
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Two hundred forty.
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The Greeks and the Persians in the rear of the Greeks proper came the kindred Macedonians and Thracians.
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On their left wing, the Phrygians crossed by the Bosphorus into Asia Minor.
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Two hundred forty-one.
Mike SchmitzHOST
The rest paid them tribute every year.
Mike SchmitzHOST
Philip and Perseus, king of the Macedonians, and the others who rose up against them, they crushed in battle and conquered.
Mike SchmitzHOST
They also defeated Antiochus the Great, king of Asia, who went to fight against them with 120 elephants and with cavalry and chariots and a very large army.
Mike SchmitzHOST
He was crushed by them.
Murray DahmHOST
And obviously with the Gladius and several other ancient sword designs, they are stabbing, thrusting weapons rather than slashing weapons.
Murray DahmHOST
But again, when you get the copus, for instance, or the machiara in the Macedonian armies, long, curved cavalry sabres, they also don't have much of a crossguard.
Murray DahmHOST
The copus has sort of a hand, not a basket as such, but it certainly has a finger protection, but also not really designed for taking an enemy sword blow or blocking it, very much designed for slashing at the enemy And probably in a cavalry sense, your horse and the speed of you on horseback is intended to carry you through an enemy thrust rather than any kind of shield.
Murray DahmHOST
There are, of course, shielded cavalry.
Murray DahmHOST
But again, our idea of cavalry warfare, and again, it's a little bit of a controversy that the Macedonian cavalry is the first cavalry to charge home.
Murray DahmHOST
Because there are heavy cavalry in the Persian Empire before that and subsequently who seem to be designed to charge home.
Murray DahmHOST
They obviously are fully armored.
Murray DahmHOST
Some of them don't seem to have a sword when they're depicted.
MichalisHOST
We left Porus last time facing a huge dilemma.
MichalisHOST
He had Macedonians everywhere ready to attack him.
MichalisHOST
The river's width was of great assistance to him.
MichalisHOST
We can't be certain of its exact dimensions, but it was probably around 1500 meters wide, so about a mile, some saying it may have been wider.
MichalisHOST
The Indians lost 400 soldiers along with Porus's son.
MichalisHOST
The chariots got stuck in the mud, so they left them as a little present for Alexander.
MichalisHOST
And then more Macedonians crossed.
MichalisHOST
The cavalry up front made room for the infantry to cross.
Saeyoung ParkGUEST
You might literally have $0 in your checking account.
Saeyoung ParkGUEST
But don't worry, I'm not gonna ask you to raise your hand, but what I am gonna ask you to do is to compare that kind of an attitude with that of the Macedonians.
Saeyoung ParkGUEST
"For in a severe test of affliction, their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity." That is a superbly paradoxical statement that can only be unlocked by the Gospel.
Saeyoung ParkGUEST
We talked a little bit about the church in Jerusalem, now we have to talk a little bit about the churches in Macedonia.
Saeyoung ParkGUEST
Paul holds up the Macedonians as the model of Christian giving, the prime example that we are to imitate.
Saeyoung ParkGUEST
But unexpectedly, this is not because the Macedonians gave such a large amount.
Saeyoung ParkGUEST
As it turns out, they couldn't.
Saeyoung ParkGUEST
Macedonia was the province that consisted of northern Greece, and the three primary cities it included were Philippi, Thessalonica, and Berea.
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