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Who cares.Macedon wasn't a city state it was not a part of that collection of city states you refer to such as your Athens, Sparta, Thebes, Argos etc. And while Greeks were not a unified nation state the identity existed at that time.
Crete was an entirely different civilization with a different language, religion and origin. Despite all that, they are Greek.
Macedon has more going for it on that front.
That doesn't really explain anything. If they are as foreign as you say they are, being the frontier province that did the conquering shouldn't make a difference. Did the Germans partake in the gladiatorial games after conquesting the Romans. I mean in what way are those two examples comparable?Yes because Persia was a large multinational empire that would see the Greece as a conquered frontier province whereas the Macedonians were the frontier province conquering the civiliaztion to take it over akin to the Germanics coming into Rome. Not that its a 1/1 thing but a solid comp I think.