In segments of present-day Albania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, and northern Greece, the Hellenistic dominion of Macedon secured its beautiful highland frontiers and patriarchal ascension of Phillip II (382 - 336 B.C.) from the alien uncertainties incited to its east by Thrace, to its west by particular Illyrian tribes, and to the south by the threat of the Greek allies. King Phillip's ascension in 359 B.C. was fashioned classically, hastily radical and heretically prudent with his insertions of …showed first 75 words of 2210 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2210 total…the Persian Empire at age 25, ending the Achaemenid dynasty founded in 550 B.C. Within the next year, Darius was assassinated by Bessus satrap of Bactria, and with his death, all hopes of the old Persian era were overturned to the optimism of the new Greek Emperor. Alexander died in his 33rd year, 323 B.C., June 13, in Babylon, ten days after a prolonged drinking bout and only after conquering Persia, Egypt, and the Indus River valley.