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give you the direction in which it was going.
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The first business that he had to do
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after he gained Amphipolis and the wealth of the mines
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was to gain control of the shoreline of the northern Aegean Sea,
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and that meant of course his own Macedonia, which he had,
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but also eastward into the region of Thrace.
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He began precisely to gain control of those places.
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It was in 357 that he took Amphipolis and
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that meant that he had to clash with Athens,
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because as I say, Athens had never given up its claim
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to Amphipolis and kept trying to get it back,
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because of its value to the Athenians.