Greece Travel Guía

Athens and its partners were revealed against Macedon to hear that Alexander had died, but it was conquered in one year with the War They were licking. Meanwhile, a struggle for the power exploded between the generals of Alexander, who caused the disintegration of its Empire and the establishment of a number of new kingdoms (the Wars of the Diadochi). Tolemeo was left left with Egypt, Seleucus with the Levant, Mesopotamia, and it indicates the East. The control of Greece, Thrace, and Anatolia was opposed, but by 298 aC the dynasty Antigonid had replaced the Antipatrid.

The Macedonian manipulation of the Greek states of city was sporadic, with a number of rebellions. Athens, Rhodes, Pergamum and other Greek states preserved the substantial independence, and joined the Alliance Aetolian as a way of defense of it. The Alliance Achaean, while nominally fastened in Tolemeos it was current independently, and controlled most of Greece of the south. Sparta also remained independent, but generally it was refusing to join any alliance.

In 267 aC Tolemeo II convinced the Greek cities of rebel against Macedon, in what the War Chremonidean was done, after the leader Athenian Chremonides. The cities were conquered and Athens lost its independence and its democratic institutions. This marked the end of Athens like a political actor, although the biggest thing was remaining, wealthiest and the most refined city in Greece. In 225 Macedon it conquered the Egyptian fleet in Companies and brought the islands egeas, except Rhodes, in accordance with its rule also.

Sparta continued hostile the Achaeans, and in 227 aC it invaded Achaea and seized the control of the Alliance. Exceptional Acheans chose distant Macedon to nearby Sparta, and was allied by the ancient one. In 222 aC the Macedonian military men conquered the Spartans and annexed its city, this was the first time that Sparta one day had been occupied by a foreign authority.

Philip V, who came to direct when dead Doson in 221 aC, was the last Greek leader both with the talent and with the occasion to unify Greece and the cloud rebellion preserves its independence against ”in the west“: the every time major authority of Rome. They knew it like ”the darling of Hellas“. Under its auspices the Peace of Naupactus (217 aC) the conflict brought between Macedon and the Greek alliance to an end, and in this time he controlled the whole Greece except Athens, Rhodes and Pergamum.

In 215 aC, the sin sequestration, Philip developed an alliance they defraud adversary that of Rome Carthage. Rome punctually nominal Philip convinced the cities Achaean far from its allegiance, and it formed alliances it defrauds Rhodes and Pergamum, now to be able stronger Asia in the minor. The First Macedonian War exploded in 212, and ended undecisively in 205, but Macedon now it was marked like an enemy of Rome. In 202 aC Rome conquered Carthage. In 198 the Second Macedonian War exploded for obscure motives, but basically because Rome saw Macedon as a potential ally of the Seleucids, the biggest power in the East. Philip's Allied Forces in Greece left it and in 197 he with decision was conquered in the Battle of Cynoscephalae by Titus Quinctius Roman Flaminius proconsul. Philip V created the Empire hugest one day seen. After having conquered all the cities and state of Greece, he invaded the Asia Minor with 30.000 soldiers. Before dying at the age of 33 years of marshy fever, Alejandro Magno had conquered the Persian Entire Empire, Egypt and Mesopotamia, Afghanistan and some parts of India. After the death of Alejandro Magno, the Macedonian Empire felt in pieces and it was divided in several parts: the Antigonids in Macedonia, the Seleucids in the Asia Minor, Syria, Persia and Tolemeos in Egypt.

The Empire finally broke, and Greece was invaded by the increasing Roman the Empire. Although debilitated politically, the Greek Civilization kept on prospering in accordance with the Roman rule and heavily it harmed the Roman culture.